Priorities
I guess it’s a part of life that everyone does. I don’t know. I want to reprioritize the things I do in my life, but I never seem to make any real changes. Or the changes go the wrong way :).
Last week I went to Honduras on a business trip. Not exactly the tourist destination these days, especially where I was going. The trip went well and now I have follow up work to do for the next month (or more).
The people were all very nice. On the 1 ½ hour bus trip you can see how poor some parts of the country are. But what I also saw was a willingness to do something to earn money. Not just beg, and ask for money, but do something. Trips like these make me very grateful for my education and well-paying job. It makes some of the whinging on facebook and other places seem so .... first world problems. I watched young men dig through trash in a landfill, pulling out anything that may have value, while the bulldozer was trying to put dirt over it.
Seriously.
Trips to poorer parts of the world always make me want to reprioritize things in my life and why I now have plans for a square kitchen garden for the back yard. I’ve always wanted one. Veggies, flowers, herbs. It will be a lot of work, but with a plan, it just may happen. I hope.
I want to step back on the shop sewing, or at least allow more time to get things done. I don’t want to stop doing it altogether, but really, I want to do my own things for a while. Four white cotton shirts are not it. But since the next shop set up is Holiday Faire, I think it can still be managed.
I know it all sounds selfish. Things I want to do, for me. I have the privilege of being able to be creative in my free time. And I do have quite a bit of free time. I’ve just filled it with things that maybe aren’t as important as I’ve made them.
I guess that’s part of it. I’ve been given a lot and I don’t want to squander it. I don’t want to wait for “next year” or “next time” either. You never know when you’ve run out of time.
Last week I went to Honduras on a business trip. Not exactly the tourist destination these days, especially where I was going. The trip went well and now I have follow up work to do for the next month (or more).
The people were all very nice. On the 1 ½ hour bus trip you can see how poor some parts of the country are. But what I also saw was a willingness to do something to earn money. Not just beg, and ask for money, but do something. Trips like these make me very grateful for my education and well-paying job. It makes some of the whinging on facebook and other places seem so .... first world problems. I watched young men dig through trash in a landfill, pulling out anything that may have value, while the bulldozer was trying to put dirt over it.
Seriously.
Trips to poorer parts of the world always make me want to reprioritize things in my life and why I now have plans for a square kitchen garden for the back yard. I’ve always wanted one. Veggies, flowers, herbs. It will be a lot of work, but with a plan, it just may happen. I hope.
I want to step back on the shop sewing, or at least allow more time to get things done. I don’t want to stop doing it altogether, but really, I want to do my own things for a while. Four white cotton shirts are not it. But since the next shop set up is Holiday Faire, I think it can still be managed.
I know it all sounds selfish. Things I want to do, for me. I have the privilege of being able to be creative in my free time. And I do have quite a bit of free time. I’ve just filled it with things that maybe aren’t as important as I’ve made them.
I guess that’s part of it. I’ve been given a lot and I don’t want to squander it. I don’t want to wait for “next year” or “next time” either. You never know when you’ve run out of time.