Stir the Pot of Oatmeal

Sometimes, even in the most alluring of occupations, the day to day routine can tend to get a little dull. Kind of like oatmeal - just a big mush of sticky oats in a pot. There are days when we have a brilliant coating of melted butter and brown sugar, and others where there is just one dry blueberry in the plastic carton on the crusty bottom shelf of the refrigerator.

Stir the pot anyway.

Be grateful for the bread you are about to receive. It will sustain you for the time being, and help get you to the next basket of strawberries.

Stirring the pot means getting yourself out there, in fresh air (or stale air, inside an art supply store, as the case may be) among new stimuli and experiences. If you are an expert in one medium, take a hand at another. Don't worry if you don't know what you are doing. Art is a wild journey of experimentation. Rock and roll wasn't created to sound like Mozart.

Use your left hand a little today. See how that unlocks something magical within you, and your craft.