JAN from Patty -- balance

 

Patty's envelope has not photographed very well. It's a fun design. She's so lucky to still have eclipse stamps. I wonder if there are any 2026 astronomy designs coming up for the stamps. A+ on the clear address. That is some aggressive stickering by the USPS. There were more stickers on the back of the envelope.  This is the photo I sent to Patty to show her how it arrived.

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I'm a solid month ahead on writing blogs. The mood of the day is one of balancing. That word seems like a pretty simple word. And yet - the frequency with which it comes up sometimes boggles my mind. I remember the first person who pointed out to me that a significant life-lesson is finding balance. It was a school counselor in elementary school who was offering a suggestion about some random incident that had happened in an elementary school. There is a learning curve when you've been out of elementary school for 20 years and then you return as a parent. Half nostalgic / half scary.

The admonition to seek balance resonated with me and has stuck with me. Maybe it's been reinforced in other ways. Or maybe it's just a hack technique. [Put a pin in the word hack. Didn't it used to mean bad and now to hack something now seems like it's a very clever idea?]

Here we are, 40 years later and the answer to the daily dilemmas tends to be *balance.* I had an interesting exchange of thoughts with a fellow artist recently and it struck me that we covered several things that are fodder for the blog. More tomorrow.

In the meantime, stay balanced. Both mindfully and literally. Don't fall down.