Well, as I was doodling away and the controls suddenly stopped working my first response was frustration. I kept trying to get it to draw a line or make a stroke so I could build it up.

Then, my next thought, "I've put this time into already this morning I could have been working on my Singularity Poster project". But then, I take a moment, look out the window and breathe. The birds were singing. I could hear the waves. And I thought (no surprise) of my garden. My next response was, "Happy Accident".

So many times in art school did any number of teachers use the term "Happy Accident" and often it was true and made you smile and gave you pause. This too happened to me. "Well," Says I, "Nothing you can do, but post it as is and call it your morning art done and go out into nature."

And I had to think, well, that was a sort of gift. I could make my little quick post about the work and out I could go, set free for the afternoon to just putter and faff about (I'm so good at acting like a 90 year old lady since I was 20).

I really do think that lessons on Life and relishing the moment, even what occurs first as mistake or upset, into opportunity really is a good lesson. I think of the Simpsons reference when Lisa says, 'The Japanese have a word that means both crisis and opportunity" and Homer replies "Crisitunity". We often use that phrase round her: Crisitunity

Thank you Hive account@natureofbeing.