Day 658: Good People

Ruuuuuuth

I am proud of myself today. I made a plan to do my tax return this weekend and so far I've stuck to it. I'm a good way through and I plan to (want to, have to) finish the first stage and send everything off to my accountant tomorrow. I still swam (beautiful) and walked the dog, thus taking in the sun and the flowers, but I got back on with it afterwards. 

Wouldn't it be incredible if this was the start of a more gentle form of discipline in work... just enjoying the satisfaction of planning to do something and doing it rather than vaguely intending to and procrastinating. What would it be like to live like that? Maybe the key is just one thing. Just that, this weekend. Not the massive breadth of things there are on offer in my mind in every moment. Perhaps that focus is the switch-flicker. And I do love a good tax return... 

Not 'my' Kath Jones, but
'a' Kath Jones

I'm grateful in reams for Kath Jones, that clear-eyed, inspiring sprite of a woman; for Ruth Blake and her gentle, persevering love; for Tiu de Haan and her vibrancy, creativity and proper passionate approach to life. Thanks too, inspired men. I take off my hat to you. Simon Veal, you are the best fun ever to play with and I'm very grateful that we get to do that. 

Tiuuuuuu

Thank you, TC Gill, for giving me your conference ticket. I'm VERY grateful for that. I wanted very much to and had cried off, money-wise. Now it seems I'm helping to organise the one this time next year. That's what happens when you go to things, that it. Maybe it will help me be bolder at organising my own stuff, given that it's all so very possible.

Thanks, pond people, for being there and totally accepting when I was all tears and snot on Wednesday, just as there and accepting as you are when I'm all joy and waterbliss. I'm blown away by the quality of the people in my life. Or by the match. It's not that me and my friends are better than anyone else, it's that we seem to suit each other well. I know so many people who inspire me, accept me and delight me and vice versa and for this I must actively rejoice. So I am. Right now. It involves a movement of the bottom and a lovely glow. Good enough to give thanks for in itself.