An Unexpectedly Creative Day

Despite the joys of insomnia visited upon me once again last night and the resultant lack of sleep, and despite the continued presence of far too much phlegm in my personal head space, I had a particularly creative day today. Thanks to said insomnia, at 5:30am this morning, I wound up sitting on the couch doing some edits to my novel. And then after a few hours of interruption by kid and morning routine, I headed out to the 'Box for some previously scheduled BIC writing time while Josh, bless him, took Eli to go see the Heffalump movie. (And there at the 'Box, despite the usual temptations of excellent convo with the writer gals, I actually did manage to get some more writing done--not finished, but a good start.)

Then, as if that wasn't great enough, when I got home, I was still feeling inspired (or was that caffeinated?) and went out to my "studio" and spent several great hours painting. I felt really connected to the creative zone and pleased with the process, and the time just flew by...by the time I was convinced to quit fiddling and stop (by both Josh and Eli), it was dinner time and my back was killing me from standing up at the easel for hours. But the good news is I think I pretty much finished one out of the four paintings I'd been planning to take with me to the hospital. (There's always more that *could* be done with every painting, but until I get some distance from it I'm not sure whether I'll be leaving this one alone or tweaking it just a bit more. I suppose a lot will depend on timing, truthfully.) It took me a lot longer than I thought it was going to, mostly because of the bits that were brushwork and not brayered (I'm a lot more confident with the brayer and anyway, you can't really re-do the brayered stuff--once it's done it's done, and that's good for me and my process). But even if I don't wind up getting a chance to do the other three, I'm glad I at least will have this one to take with me. Who knows, maybe tomorrow I can do another! We shall see...I'm *so* trying to take things moment by moment right now and not get caught up in my usual planning ahead. It's both a valuable lesson and wildly annoying to me to try to stay in this place of uncertainty. But stay there I must.