I feel like this summer is running away with me. The children are talking all the time, all at once and it feels like there isn’t the time to think. We aren’t doing very much as the ‘pingdemic’ is terrifying me and we are counting down the days until we have a week away.
Meanwhile, I am plodding on with redrafting my book (with a few lapses like this week where I have been doing a bit of design work instead.)
I feel like I am always juggling, and often failing at this thing called life. There seems to be so much to do, so many ideas, but they run from me and there just isn’t the time.
But if there’s one thing I have learned as a mother and as a writer, it is to do things slowly and do things well. So I don’t put out that many new products in my Etsy shop because I don’t have the time to keep designing, so I’m aiming for three things a year… I’ve put my commission prices up because they were costing me too much in terms of time. And coming into September, it feels like time to reassess everything again, to see what works and what doesn’t work, what costs too much (in terms of time) and what doesn’t give as much joy.
For me, I am always figuring out the way, and trying to stay true to myself, because ‘What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?’ (Mark 8:36). And that’s another thing: making sure that the things I create and the work that I do feels true to me.
Here is a poem I wrote the other day when craving the quiet.
I hope you are enjoying the summer whatever you are doing,
Liz xx
elisabeth pike 