I Feel Pretty Good!

• I know that I do go on and on about the SAD light but is is making an amazing difference to what I am able to get done. Today I went into the kitchen, moved everything off the counters and cleaned all the counters. That was follows by putting everything back and cleaning the top of the stove and the two sinks. {I remember when I was dealing with that nasty gastritis stuff my energy was so depleted that I cleaned one sink and then had to go back to bed!} After the sinks, I stopped because doing so much standing was hurting my back so I made myself a pot of tea and got a cookie and sat down here in front of my computer.
• The next thing I am going to do {possibly today}is to organize myself to make some stamps to use in the backgrounds of my paintings. I have bought a few but I also have some Dover books that have all sorts of royalty-free designs to help me get going. Very occasionally when I would get bored with teaching English, **I would do some art with my students. I used to tell them to "feel free to copy from the person sitting next to you because it is very difficult to copy exactly!" And since they were all individuals, although they may have got the idea from someone else, something of each of them went into it and that is what made each picture interesting and different. I remember one day I found that they didn’t actually know what the word symmetry meant, so I did a "draw along with me" symmetrical design on the board. It was a lot of fun. ** Actually, as a writing teacher, everything we did could be written about. After the symmetrical designs were done, I had them write about their design. They had to explain what symmetry meant and also what they had done. This included explaining what they had taken from me or a neighbor and what was all theirs!
• No snow is falling today. If one can believe the forecast, no snow will fall tomorrow, so tomorrow I will go get groceries. We are basically only low in milk and eggs so although I am sure I will get more than these, it will be a light shopping trip.

I am grateful for:

1. my SAD light.
2. the positive and slightly energetic  way I am feeling today.
3. my Kindle which I am going to read when I have saved this!

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."

Marcus Aurelius