Days 30 & 31: Strength & Energy
Ahhhh. That’s the sigh of me finishing what I started on the 1st of October. Here are my final contributions to Mused’s October Creativity Challenge. Enjoy…
Nuff said.
Dislocated, fractured, surgerized ankle and all… the search for understanding is the energy that propels me forward even when I feel like quitting. I don’t have my shit together, but I’m pretty sure I know where most of it is. If you’re looking for me and I’m not here, I’m probably out trying to solve a few more mysteries 
xo,
the mess
What’s the October Creativity Challenge?
My friend Michelle at Mused is running the October Creativity Challenge. I love things like that and I’ve been missing clicking pics. The scenery around a woman laid up at home with a broken ankle doesn’t seem very stimulating, but with Michelle’s daily photo prompts I think I can make something happen here. I’m “motivated” to get my IPhone’s shutter moving!
Days 28 & 29: Adventure & Courage
Yes I know it’s November and I’m still finishing up Mused’s October Creativity Challenge. Better late than never? Heck I don’t know. I just wanted to finish what I started, even if I didn’t deliver the goods on time. Enjoy…
Thanks goodness I don’t have to know exactly where I am going or how to get there. Putting one foot in front of the other seems to work pretty damned well, especially when I’m stuck!
It takes a lot of courage to show the world who we really are… brown spots cellulite wrinkles saggy boobs warts and all.
xo,
the mess
What’s the October Creativity Challenge?
My friend Michelle at Mused is running the October Creativity Challenge. I love things like that and I’ve been missing clicking pics. The scenery around a woman laid up at home with a broken ankle doesn’t seem very stimulating, but with Michelle’s daily photo prompts I think I can make something happen here. I’m “motivated” to get my IPhone’s shutter moving!
Days 26 & 27: Satisfaction and Friendship
Here at The Mess, I’m still living in October. Besides the fact that my B-Day is in October, Imma finish this October Creativity Challenge by damn! I won’t have closure until I do!!
Mooyah satisfies my burger lust and longings in a way no other burger ever has. (Damn, am I writing about a man or a burger.)
xo,
~the mess
What’s the October Creativity Challenge?
My friend Michelle at Mused is running the October Creativity Challenge. I love things like that and I’ve been missing clicking pics. The scenery around a woman laid up at home with a broken ankle doesn’t seem very stimulating, but with Michelle’s daily photo prompts I think I can make something happen here. I’m “motivated” to get my IPhone’s shutter moving!
Day 23 – 25: Acceptance, Community, & Belonging
There are times when I have a hard time accepting acceptance. Saying goodbye, letting go, walking away, moving on… I’m learning to accept these things. They feel like abandoments. Perhaps they are abandoments, but they are natural parts of life. They don’t happen “at” me. They happen “to” me. Big difference.
I took me a minute to process these bikes. When I saw them I wondered why there were so many vintage bikes on the rack, but they are the bikes of today on a college campus here in Texas. Then it clicked. Everything old is new again.
Right where they belong. Each morning at my side or feet. This morning Shorty didn’t seem the least bit phased that Freddie had his back leg across his throat. Shorty did, however, pop up to say hi to you.
xo,
~the mess
What’s the October Creativity Challenge?
My friend Michelle at Mused is running the October Creativity Challenge. I love things like that and I’ve been missing clicking pics. The scenery around a woman laid up at home with a broken ankle doesn’t seem very stimulating, but with Michelle’s daily photo prompts I think I can make something happen here. I’m “motivated” to get my IPhone’s shutter moving!
Day WTF?!
(PROLOGUE: I might need to rethink naming a blog post "Day WTF." I put this post together on October 21 and NEVER posted it. So now, on my blog, Day 22 comes before Days 15-21. Thankfully I'm on record as being A MESS. It's apropos that my days should be out-of-order. Hell most of my life is spent out-of-order. I over multi-task (is that multi-multi-tasking?) I get distracted and forget what I actually set out to do. I always have a zillion tabs open in Safari and usually have a Firefox session open too. Good heavens!! Thanks for bearing with me beauties
I made a decision to participate in Mused’s October Creativity Challenge. It’s been a while since I’ve seen a 30 challenge all the way through to the end. I am determined to make this one happen. I fell behind last week and did a couple of 2-Fer posts.
Today I’m posting a Week-Fer. Days 15 – 21 here they come.
This week, I knew I was falling behind with posts for the October Creativity Challenge. At one point I even said “screw-it I just don’t have time to finish it.” Problem with that thinking was I wanted to complete the challenge. And that’s when I knew… I was facing the sh*t I knew I had – but certainly didn’t have together. I never have enough time, but then neither does anyone else. It seems to be the human battle cry.
There it was. One more time. My perfectionism. I’ve got an inner-demon who tells me if I can’t do something “perfectly” or the “right” way, then don’t do it at all. It can look like procrastination or a lack of follow-through, but really it’s perfectionism rearing her colorful and messy head. Once again the “perfect” opportunity for healing has been presented.
Perfectionism is the great diminisher. In her shadow, I feel small. Unworthy. Uncreative. Talentless.
Self-care is essential to my balance. I wonder sometimes why I have to fall off the beam and hit so hard before before I get my own attention.
Sometimes I have to coax the mini-mess out of hiding.
I’m a fan of baby-steps. When I’m stuck, I only need to figure out how to take the next step. It’s a lot easier that way.
For me, perfectionism is cruelty. I get a lot more done when I’m kind… to me.
Ten more days to go. I’m glad I didn’t quit on me.
xo,
~the mess
What’s the October Creativity Challenge?
My friend Michelle at Mused is running the October Creativity Challenge. I love things like that and I’ve been missing clicking pics. The scenery around a woman laid up at home with a broken ankle doesn’t seem very stimulating, but with Michelle’s daily photo prompts I think I can make something happen here. I’m “motivated” to get my IPhone’s shutter moving!
Day 22: Understanding
The whole concept behind A Beautiful Mess Inside is understanding. I want all of us to know we aren’t alone. Having a beautiful mess inside doesn’t make us crazy – it makes us human.
xo,
~the mess
What’s the October Creativity Challenge?
My friend Michelle at Mused is running the October Creativity Challenge. I love things like that and I’ve been missing clicking pics. The scenery around a woman laid up at home with a broken ankle doesn’t seem very stimulating, but with Michelle’s daily photo prompts I think I can make something happen here. I’m “motivated” to get my IPhone’s shutter moving!
Days 13 & 14: Free Expression – Excitement
Hi Beauties:
Today is “hug your mini-mess day”. The creative child inside is responsible for so much of our free expression and excitement. 
xo,
~the mess ♥
Music that Moves
Today a vintage performance by Mariah Carey comes to mind.
What’s the October Creativity Challenge?
My friend Michelle at Mused is running the October Creativity Challenge. I love things like that and I’ve been missing clicking pics. The scenery around a woman laid up at home with a broken ankle doesn’t seem very stimulating, but with Michelle’s daily photo prompts I think I can make something happen here. I’m “motivated” to get my IPhone’s shutter moving!
Days 11 & 12: Enlightenment and Awareness
My version of enlightenment is knowing that I don’t know. It is accepting the mystery of and in life. I know that I don’t know, but I have faith that somehow – someday – in someway it will all make sense.
I have been here before. Well not exactly here, but a strange awareness fills me. The old fashioned steam radiator brings back a childhood memory. Not a particularly pleasant one.
The memory isn’t important right now. But the awareness of the little girl. Looking at that radiator conjures up an image of a resourceful child. At age 8, I was wise beyond my years. But at age 18 I wasn’t so so wise anymore. By then I was missing something. I searched many years to find the missing piece. Finally, I turned my eyes inward and searched inside. When I found her, I found me. I may not always be happy, but finding the missing piece has indeed brought me my missing peace.
Today I thank an old steam radiator for bringing a new awareness to me. My journey isn’t over, but my desperate searching is. I’m right here – where I left me.
xo,
~the mess
What’s the October Creativity Challenge?
My friend Michelle at Mused is running the October Creativity Challenge. I love things like that and I’ve been missing clicking pics. The scenery around a woman laid up at home with a broken ankle doesn’t seem very stimulating, but with Michelle’s daily photo prompts I think I can make something happen here. I’m “motivated” to get my IPhone’s shutter moving!
Days 9 & 10: Intuition and Awakening
Just remember. The inner voice is NOT chatty. If lots of words are involved it’s most likely mental chatter or the voice of fear. The voice of intuition strikes with amazing clarity and precision. But because it isn’t wordy, we often fail to listen.
I don’t think we awaken only once. Life is a series of awakenings. The sun rises. The sun sets. Sometimes it is hidden. Other times it is so bright it will burn and blind you. As long as we are breathing it’s not too late for yet another awakening.
Music that Moves
Mumford and Sons – Awake My Soul
Mumford and Sons – Awake My Soul from Thomas Henley on Vimeo.
xo,
~the mess ♥
What’s the October Creativity Challenge?
My friend Michelle at Mused is running the October Creativity Challenge. I love things like that and I’ve been missing clicking pics. The scenery around a woman laid up at home with a broken ankle doesn’t seem very stimulating, but with Michelle’s daily photo prompts I think I can make something happen here. I’m “motivated” to get my IPhone’s shutter moving!
Days 8: Dreams
I like to dream wide awake using my right eye and my trusty iPhone. Almost anything can look dreamy through the lens. There is so much to see and so many different ways to look. I miss too much when I don’t use my photographer’s eye. What better way is there to remember your dreams? I capture them with my with lens.
xo,
~the mess ♥
What’s the October Creativity Challenge?
My friend Michelle at Mused is running the October Creativity Challenge. I love things like that and I’ve been missing clicking pics. The scenery around a woman laid up at home with a broken ankle doesn’t seem very stimulating, but with Michelle’s daily photo prompts I think I can make something happen here. I’m “motivated” to get my IPhone’s shutter moving!
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