Le weekend est fini.
My friend Erika was in town from Boston. She told an anecdote about being told she was too judgmental. My brother David thinks that not only am I too judgmental and critical, but way too willing to broadcast my opinions. And I as sat down to write, and thought about le weekend and the day today, parsing it into successes and failures to add up my experience, it occurred to me that maybe I am too judgmental.
As a producer and as a sometime editor, being critical and judging ARE my job. Assessing, examining, eyeing, weighing, projecting outcomes ... all of those skills have become habits that I realize I bring to bear on myself a little too harshly. (I am not as good at projecting outcomes for myself.)
Rick Hanson has a newsletter titled Just One Thing. Yesterday's post was about being for yourself.
I find some truth in this. Harshly self-critical. Yep.
So, I will not list a litany of my transgressions against myself this weekend. Mistakes were made. But so was a great rosemary-garlic roast chicken. And so was progress in my on-going house-organization.
This reminded me of Doris Troy's Just One Look.
And all I actually have to offer as a writer, is my version of life. — Anne Lamott
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I've been following for a while and the image I have of you from ZeRO and the links you post conflicts with the image you project on your blog. Instead of a litany of transgressions perhaps you should try to record five accomplishments each day. Even small victories count. I appreciate your intrusions into my world. There's your first accomplishment for today.
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