Paz, Música

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I spent the last few days getting ready for my column debut (May 11th, don’t forget!)- sending out press releases, emailing people, etc.  On the one hand, it’s hard for me to promote myself because, although I’m proud of my work, I’m a shy-ish person (not shy enough to not engage in self-promotion, just shy enough to feel anxiety about doing it).  On the other, it’s fantastic to hear back from people with words of encouragement.  (My favorite note so far of several really positive ones was from one of my former Spanish Lit. professors, who was very complementary about my work and sent an “abrazo cariñoso” not for me, or my husband, but for our kids.  That’s exactly why she was my favorite profesora.)

Anyway, in addition to this work, I’m also embroiled in final preparations for our upcoming move.  I loved the house building process, but the home decorating process?  Well, it’s not that I don’t like it, just that there never seems to be enough time in the day to do all that needs to be done there.  Just today, I spent literally 90 minutes trying to figure out what size mattress to buy and then what bedding would work in the master bedroom.  And Thursday, I’ll be choosing fabrics for window treatments.  I know we’re lucky to be in this position, but still I grumble a bit that my time’s spent on these tasks when there’s so much that’s begging me to write it.  

I’ve learned how to de-stress quite a bit in the past few years, purely out of necessity, but some of my best de-stressors are things that I feel I don’t have enough time for right now (yoga) or things that would wake sleeping kids up (music, loudish).  Someday, soon we will be moved, and settled, and I can have all the time I’d like for paz y música.

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