Five years is a long time to work on something only to discover you've been barking up the proverbial wrong tree. It's hard on the ego to step back and say, "you know, I have been traveling a path that isn't right for me, and I've been trying to fit my square peg body into a round hole and it's just not working for me any more."
I joined the Squidoo community in September of 2008. Yesterday I deleted all but 9 of my pages there, and turned in my Giant Squid 100 status and my Squid Angel Wings. I know that this was the right thing for me to do, given my personal situation, and I know that there are some who will not understand. It really doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things ... and that's my lesson in all this.
Put your hand in a bucket of water then pull it out and see how fast that displacement fills back up. That's about how much my page will be missed on Squidoo. I don't care, though, and that's the good part. I am getting out of the digital sharecropping arena and into a real business.
Plus I am having a lot of fun making little music videos for my kids' and my sister.
Here's the latest:
I joined the Squidoo community in September of 2008. Yesterday I deleted all but 9 of my pages there, and turned in my Giant Squid 100 status and my Squid Angel Wings. I know that this was the right thing for me to do, given my personal situation, and I know that there are some who will not understand. It really doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things ... and that's my lesson in all this.
Put your hand in a bucket of water then pull it out and see how fast that displacement fills back up. That's about how much my page will be missed on Squidoo. I don't care, though, and that's the good part. I am getting out of the digital sharecropping arena and into a real business.
Plus I am having a lot of fun making little music videos for my kids' and my sister.
Here's the latest:
I haven't touched the 80 or so Hawaiian shirts hanging in the closet ... neither of us has felt well enough to make the spot for taking photos, although we did buy the plant hanger that's going to be on the photography wall.
Going through this rough patch with body has been an enlightening experience, and I think I'll come out of this with a better understanding and I hope a deeper compassion for those with disabilities that are unseen. You wouldn't know to look at me how hard it is to function with this level of pain. I've got another medical appointment on Monday, and I will be seeing a real doctor this time so I am hoping he or she will know what to do for me. I'm living on OTC medications, and still find it difficult to get anything done.
I've been sticking to the keyboard and guitar because I can't lift the accordion right now. I am not entirely sure I will ever be able to play it again, but I hope so.
This next video is one I made a few weeks ago (you can hear I'm still suffering from the Cold From Hell as I recorded it) ... it's a song we sang when I was in high school taking guitar class in my junior year from John Starets, may he rest in peace. We sang it with a calypso rhythm, but I learned recently that the original song was a lot different ... I think this is a John Starets arrangement. I don't like the original song, but I do like this version. Hope you enjoy it.
Going through this rough patch with body has been an enlightening experience, and I think I'll come out of this with a better understanding and I hope a deeper compassion for those with disabilities that are unseen. You wouldn't know to look at me how hard it is to function with this level of pain. I've got another medical appointment on Monday, and I will be seeing a real doctor this time so I am hoping he or she will know what to do for me. I'm living on OTC medications, and still find it difficult to get anything done.
I've been sticking to the keyboard and guitar because I can't lift the accordion right now. I am not entirely sure I will ever be able to play it again, but I hope so.
This next video is one I made a few weeks ago (you can hear I'm still suffering from the Cold From Hell as I recorded it) ... it's a song we sang when I was in high school taking guitar class in my junior year from John Starets, may he rest in peace. We sang it with a calypso rhythm, but I learned recently that the original song was a lot different ... I think this is a John Starets arrangement. I don't like the original song, but I do like this version. Hope you enjoy it.
By the way ... that photo at the top is of a necklace that's available on Amazon. It's linked with my amazon affiliate link so if you were to click on it and then buy something on Amazon, I'd probably get a little commission from Amazon. I"m not asking you to click, I hasten to say, just letting you know where I got the photo and disclosing my affiliate relationship with Amazon so as to meet the FTC requirements.
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