When people walk into my living room they are presented with a music studio. I have a piano, an electric organ, a TV table with 4 boxes of music books in current use, and a desktop computer, a dining table covered with piles of books and papers, two chairs, no couch, no TV, no coffee table.
My work life is not simple. As a freelance musician nothing is predictable week to week. Daily routine does not happen easily since the necessary activities of each day are different.
So today a light went on — I need to simplify my activities, not my things. Things can be sorted and simplified later. My life needs to slow down. At any moment I have at least a dozen “projects” going on.
If you were to let go of three things before bedtime tonight, what would they be? What would you gain by letting them go?
That was the journalling prompt which got me started on this post. I have been working on this post and my plans for a few weeks now, and have made progress. Last week I notified one of my colleagues that he would need to find someone to replace me in September, since my last week of teaching his students would be near the end of May. Also on Sunday I let the contact person at a church know that they would need to find a different musician to sub the next time their new organist was out of town. This afternoon will be my final rehearsal at the university.
Gradually I am whittling away at the busy-ness of my life. It feels good. I will get through this.
Reflections 