Incorporating life

Leaving the cooking and gardening deep in the weekend and turning towards a very, hopefully productive week. I still find it a struggle though, going from one thing to another, this changing of hats, changing of identities. One minute you are a gardener, next the photographer, next a cook, next the filmmaker. And all the time being a mom on top of all that. But it is necessary, this is how my life looks like,(like so many other mothers life) and would I like to change anything, make it simpler, of course not! I just need to find the red line going through these activities, a state of mind that would fit to all. Find a way to relate. Because, at time, all of my activities need to be combined (writing a script and talking to my son while my husband needs me to find picture for the business and the wind is currently destroying the newly planted quince tree)


Currently when I write a script it absorbs so much more, actually almost everything I have, then anything else and I feel like a power station, that needs a fair bit of time to warm up to start generating the level of ideas I need. I therefore can’t hop easily between different hats, or the power station will choke out!

But I think I am getting there. I have lowered the ambitions in the house and garden (it really doesn’t need to look like “Country Living”), and I have started to play around and impose my creativity in the non suspicious garden. I have banned Cath Kidston in the house and started to incorporate things that inspire me. And my boy, well he is the source of infinite inspiration and joy and someone who makes sure my priorities are set straight so I do not fly off into la la land completely.

It is all a work in progress. Somewhere there is a definite link to join my life together into the creativity I need to express, but where the hell did I put it?