Stuck. My mind mired while my body yearns to move but waits on a mired mind to help it cross the street. Motivation is but a soft, brief breeze as tangible as yesterday. This has been a problem for two weeks, and the work keeps piling, stacking higher and higher. A friend suggested ADHD meds. What? Really. I wonder.... I often think that an assistant or partner would do the trick far better. Someone to share the load. Advice: never take for granted another's willingness to share your load. More advice: do not believe that you can play Atlas forever. Goal: be open to sharing the load.
Until then, I need to define more clearly the stacks on my desk, so I leave you with this, a work in progress which began as an ode to desire for my castle-dweller:
and sends me reeling
across the thin wire
and I yearn
she can fight
and she can love out loud
she spits fire
and I want
to burn
10 comments:
I like this
i've often thought i have mild adhd - i can't seem to focus on any one project for too long a time, choosing to bounce around on many all at once - i kid myself and just say i'm better at delegating tasks than accomplishing them! good luck finding that assistant - good ones are hard to find.
Three points. I'm in a point mood today.
1. It's not ADHD, it's called being overwhelmed with the mundane details of legal life. Pick up one file. Open it. Do what needs to be done. Put it down. Go walk around the block. Repeat. If you don't it only gets worse. Trust me. Oh, and sit and make a list of all the phone calls you need to make. Make them all. Then turn off the ringer. You can deal with the fall-out after you clear the stacks.
2. Join in on the debate. It will help engage your mind and actually make you feel like a cerebral being once again. After a few days off, and more days of fighting over the pretty pink lunch box, you need it.
3. Beautiful ode. Write more. This won't help you get work done, but it makes me smile.
pretty ode! finish that after all the work as a treat for you and your soul.
cant get your ode here out of my head..yes please finish.
your unknown girl here is very lucky.
Very lucky.
Every time I read this ode (which I do more than once because it's so graphically beautiful), Billy Joel's "She's Always A Woman" plays in my head...
there is great value in having one to share the load whether it is related to business of personal life. wishing you that someone in each area.
seconding lawgirl's request on the literary verses too. ;)
I love those lines.
i like the ode too :)
(yes i'm still reading)
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