I'm back!

How cool!!! And I'm glad to hear she's getting bids! Thanks very much for telling me. Sarajane

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Big, big welcome home, Sarajane. {{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{Sj}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}} ~~ Sooz

------- ESBC Dr. Sooz's Bead Links

of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly makingexciting discoveries. ~ A. A. Milne

Thanks Sooz!!! And for the hug too, I can really really use 'em right now---going back there was very stressfull, tho the Right Thing To Do on many levels. I had forgotten JUST how hard on the whole system it is to live with high levels of critical evaluation and emotional pressure. Funny, when someone sees you as less than competant or good, it can become self-fulfilling. Sarajane

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Being aware and watchful, so you recognize an inherited pattern when it surfaces is an essential first step in making conscious changes. It isn't easy to do, and everybody lapses ... but over time, it really works to give you choices where one you only had choiceless programming.

Congratulations on a fruitful trip.

Deirdre

It puts you in a self-conscious feedback loop, where simply going with the flow becomes impossible. Makes you awkward and clumsy because you are second-guessing yourself all the time. Or stopping to see your actions and outcomes through the critics eyes rather than your own.

Really defeats the purpose, if the critic thinks they want a better 'performance' from someone.

But usually, what the critic wants is not related to the outcome at all. It is a bid for power and one-upness, and when that is the aim, there is no 'good enough' performance. You could try for years to meet their terms, and never succeed. It is a set-up, pure and simple.

In my model of the universe, though, success is being able to stay 'in the flow' even while the critics are picking you apart. Being able to say "Yes, I know this isn't up to your august standards, but I have my own standards and I am going to strive to meet those, not yours. You can hold -yourself- to the standards you are trying to impose on me if you want, but I am not going to apply them to me. My own style, methods and intentions take precedence. Live with it."

Deirdre

Spot on, Deirdre. Did you grow up at my house too????? I explained this to my kids, they got the point really quickly. Sarajane

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Welcome back!

Rachel T. Damn right I'm good in bed. I can sleep for days. ;)

It is good to have you home. We left the porch light burning...and missed you. hugs, Diana

Welcome back Sarajane!

Good idea. Having an experience, and then reflecting on it and deciding how to make what you learned in the process work in your own favor ... that's a great way to turn even something that was nasty and uncomfortable in the present into something nourishing for the future.

A part of getting un-stuck instead of feeling stuck with 'the way things have always been'.

Deirdre

Thanks Kandice! Its good to be here. I'd almost forgotton how the humidity can make the summers SOOOO warm in Ohio! Sarajane

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Thanks Rachel! Hey, I waved as we flew over in the plane--didja see?? Sarajane

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Hi Diana! I waved in your direction too--its great to have friends all over the place.And its good to be back in MY place! Sarajane

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Thanks Jerri! I can barely wait to get back to beading...it was hard enough being off line for a week, but being away from the studio was a stretch too. But then, its good to stretch now and then! Sarajane

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Which airport did you land at? Dayton, or Columbus? (There is one in Columbus, right?)

Rachel T. Damn right I'm good in bed. I can sleep for days. ;)

We went through Columbus. After seeing Denver, Detroit, and Minneapolis/St. Paul as well as the one in Columbus, my boys were the least impressed with the Columbus airport....it was the dirtiest, least well laid out and also the rudest and most intrusive behavior was there---seems I look terribly dangerous to the security types. The boys also found the million dollar+ Lichtenstein sculpture to be lacking in aesthetic appeal--they called it "the bleeding banana thing" and wonder how they can get gigs doing million dollar art too. Sarajane

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On Wed, 2 Jul 2003 15:09:29 -0400, Sjpolyclay wrote (in message ):

And Bob calls Sophie "The other white meat."

I can ping a seed bead at him with amazing accuracy, without even losing my place in the piece I'm making.

In our house, we substitute "friendly" for the f-word.

Kathy N-V

Now this is a useful skill. Did it take much practice? Or are you a natural sure-shot?

Deirdre

Oh, yick - humidity and heat!