Sometimes, even in the most alluring of occupations, the day to day routine can tend to get a little dull. Kind of like oatmeal - just a big mush of sticky oats in a pot. There are days when we have a brilliant coating of melted butter and brown sugar, and others where there is just one dry blueberry in the plastic carton on the crusty bottom shelf of the refrigerator. Stir the pot anyway. Be grateful for the bread you are about to receive. It will sustain you for the

Sometimes I think we waste our time spinning around in circles doing what we are "supposed to be doing" instead of what it is we really want to do. I'm guilty of this myself. I'll putz around forcing myself to continue with a project or a path I really don't want to be on, just because it's what some phantom society in my mind says I'm supposed to do. If a curiosity bubbles to the surface, pleading for your attention, that's what you need to be tending to. It's like a str

Whatever it is you need to do, a task that is large or small, just give it 20 minutes of your attention. What happens is first is that you realize you can do anything for 20 minutes. It's really not a large amount of time. The hurdle of mind resistance has been jumped. Great. If you want to keep going, do so. But if 20 minutes is truly all you have, you've cracked the door open and let a little sunlight in. That crack will grow larger and larger each time to throw a