It’s the first day of a new calendar.
Happy 1st of January 2015 to you all and may this day and all that follow be filled with all the love, joy, creativity and good things that each of you deserves so much.
This isn’t quite my first piece of art for this new year; I spent time today completing two pieces of Scandinavian art for Michael O’Mara Books. I got the 1960s work for them done on Tuesday. Yesterday was a day where I did some mandalas for the third ‘Color Me’ book to follow on from the huge success of Color Me Calm and Colour Me Happy.
I’m certainly being kept busy with art!
The winter break is nearly over, and all too soon. It took me over week to calm down enough that the palpitations from work related stress calmed down and for me to sleep properly once again.
No doubt the manic-ness that is teaching will have me stressed out again, especially as it’ll be crazy with an Estyn inspection in three weeks time.
Taking time to meditate, to create, to write will be so important for me, as it always is, but more so with this added pressure and the fact that I didn’t realise how stressed out I was with work, and how exhausted I was too.
I hope I can stave the exhaustion off for a longer time this coming school term …
Angela Porter 