Off to Tacoma this afternoon to see Phil’s Camino on the big screen, Q and A session afterward. Annie is flying in this morning to join me. Tomorrow we are both off to Little Rock. Two festivals in the same weekend, look at us!
There are three things that I am thinking of to get straight with trips like these. I know the festivals are all different as in they have different flavors but they are similar in some ways too, like one giant party. I have to pay attention to get more sleep and take in less food and drink. That’s the balance there.
Second, I tend to project a sort of happy-go-lucky attitude toward my cancer which I think is generally good. I tend to get heavied out by my own situation much less people coming at me to tell me something about their problems. But I don’t want to appear glib. How does one be serious and light hearted at the same time is the challenge there.
Then lastly is something else that I have been working with for a while and that is how to protect myself from an overload of other people’s problems. I want to be open and helpful and listening in general. But how do I know when enough is enough. Helping others is wonderful but is an energy drain. Maintaining this balance is the hardest of the three.
Well, that is what I am thinking about on this gray and rainy morning. I have some chores to do here at the ranch before I turn into a movie star so have to get going. Have to move a tractor and pay bills, stuff like that. So, hoping that you are getting your stuff balanced out there where you are. Keeping everything smooth is good.
Unbalanced love, Felipe.
Have a great balanced time, Felipe. Don’t wear yourself out.
Ommm, staying balanced here in Kiwiland, but may see you in a couple of weeks!
Gretchen
Gretchen ~ great to hear from you. Looking forward to seeing you and Lawrence when you roll through. You guys missed the fresh corn on the cob at the ranch and now it is pretty much fall but pretty. Felipe.x
Amigo, Felipe!
People who have known me a long time will eventually ask “How can you act so happy all the time?” Well, for starters, it’s not an act. It’s the way I do feel “most” of the time. And getting there? You spent your whole blog today talking about it: Balance. Not too much of any one thing (loving Cathy and the fam is a whole separate deal, no such thing as “too much” there). There is an endless list of things we’d totally like to avoid, but in reality we have to deal with them too, again, just not too much for too long. Balance. I’m an exceptionally good listener (not my opinion per se, but have been told by others enough times to believe it), so it can be easy for me to get over-loaded with those who just desperately need someone to do just that, listen. So, again, that activity needs to be rationed; balance. I don’t take radical views on issues and events that invite radicalization, there is NO balance in any of that crap. In principal, I’m not a “believer” in the Zodiac thingy, but having a birthday tomorrow puts me smack dab in the Libra spectrum. And the sign for those folks? Yeah, Balance 🙂
Love it. Love you, Man. Deal with it 🙂
SF,
PFJ
Happy Birthday Juan!!