In the Intentional Creativity world where I hang out, it’s #WIP Wednesday, again. Actually, all the Wednesdays are Work-In-Progress days.
I used to feel somehow pressured by #WIP days. You know how it goes…
Is mine good enough, yet? Did I actually make any progress this week? What if it’s hard to post what I’ve been learning? What if it’s hard to claim, even inside, what I’ve been learning?
You might relate. (I mean, maybe…)
Today, I feel like a bunch of the things I’m learning are all smashing into each other and becoming whole new things I hadn’t expected.
Then again, expecting is often problematic!
So, I dragged out an old, dusty box from my brain. It’s the box I used to set outside my classroom door when I was first teaching Developing Capable People, which has been a while.
And I’d explain to the eager, terrified, hopeful parents and grandparents in the group that one of the most important things we know about learning new things is that it’s really, really hard when we’re all wrapped up in shame and blame.
So, anybody who might be having feelings of shame or blame was welcome to set those feelings outside the room during our time together. And, yes, I always assured them that they could have the shame and blame back when we were done, if, of course, they wanted those feelings back.
Very few of them ever did.
So, with shame and blame deep in the virtual box… here’s an old #WIP that’s teaching me still. (This is why we document our paint journeys!)
What I see when I look at it now is all kinds of things started, some attempt to organize them, and the most helpful thing of all… a red thread running through it. (We’ll come back to the thread in a minute.)
I do have all kinds of things started and I have made LOTS of attempts at organizing all of them.
Amongst all the paintings and writing, there are some tears in my world. Some hopes. Regular ones and really big ones. And then there’s the family tree project with which I am currently obsessed.
Frankly, I’ve been trying to figure out why I’m obsessed.
Then, last night, I dreamed the answer. Well, sort of.
What I knew when I got up was that I needed to go back through some of the under layers for old #WIP’s because there was a message for me there.
And there it is… right at the top of this post.
And, yes… it’s the red thread.
The invisible connection between us and all those destined to be important in our lives.
Or, more specifically, the invisible connection between all the generations of a whole bunch of Grammies and me and my girls.
It was there in that #WIP about three years ago. And it’s in me and all the painting and writing and coaching and teaching I’m doing now.
Some of the stories I’m learning are more fun than others. I imagine you can relate!
What’s best of all, though, is that I get to keep the stories that are helpful to me and, literally or figuratively, paint over the others.
Paint something new.
And now feels like a very good time for that!
ps… If you’re curious, my #WIP for today turned into my first Abundance Muse!
pss… In the midst of my #WIP Wednesday, the need for a new Soulful Vision Plan Workshop. If you have a dream, it might just be the place for you. Details to follow… or, you could email me: suesvoice@gmail.com (Yes, YOU!)