SPICE of Life

Happy New Year!  

oh dear.  Those words don't hold very much for me at the moment. No worries, there is nothing catastrophic happening in my life, it's just that there's a bit of a war going on in my head. 

I've pegged a number of things as "maybe" causes of the disrupt. Not the least of which are: no conventional job ("art? are you kidding? ART?" ...speaks my little voice who seems to be growing daily), lack of physical movement caused by a rotten back, shoulder and elbow, missing Costa Rica like it's a lost love, typical yet harrowing relationships, and a fundamental desire to fix it all by DOING MORE.

For the sake of PETE, what in the SAM HILL??  Ha. Fun to write, but not really where I wanted to go with this post.

Here: SPICE. That's the title of this blog post. It's the acronym that I made up years ago. Well, let's be honest here, I thought up the words, and friend brilliantly arranged their letters as SPICE, which, you'll see, is very apt.  I had built a formula for measuring what's up with myself. Each letter stands for a component of ~me~ (Yes, I know, there are likely hundreds more little bits of me, but these were a good slice).  

S- Spiritual

P- Physical

I- Intellectual

C- Creative

E- Emotional

Each time I have found myself struggling, sad, angry, whatever, I try to look at my measuring tool and decide how I am out of balance and how I might put me back in balance.  Enter your own joke here about how IMbalanced I am.

I desperately want to find that balance and will be exploring the how's here. Part of me obviously wants to share this journey (hence the blogging).  I do hope it touches other's lives.  If it has yours, please touch back.