A few weeks ago, I sketched this small train car, which was parked in a dark shed at the Railway Museum. It was undergoing restoration.

This week, I feel the need to undergo restoration myself.

It’s the week before my art retreat, and I’m immersed in a To Do Marathon. I have a lot that needs doing in order to ‘clear the decks’ for some time away.

I have some strategies to keep me going this week. Before I get going on my day, I visualize the flow of my day’s activities, and I also feel myself moving through my busy day with ease and joy.

That practice has helped me immensely. I feel very different, more balanced and more peaceful, than I have in prior years during the week before my vacation.

Still, I’m definitely in need of the kind of deep restoration that an extended break gives me.

I’m looking forward to the luxury of spending an entire week working on my stained art glass mosaic. It will be just the restoration I need.

Just like this little train car, I will then be all restored and ready to come out of the darkness and into the light.

Filed under: Being a Reinventer, Adventures of a Reinventer, Lynne's Reinvention Journey on June 17th, 2009