I decided to do this in my studio and pretty soon everything was covered with brown dust including me. Luckily the room needed cleaning anyway because the window have been open in there for months.
I did where a mask and glasses so subliminally I must have know there would be dust. I am afraid I just jump in head first when I am excited about a project. If I make it too complicated or think the prep will take too long I end up feeling overwhelmed and not doing anything.
While I was masked and with safety glasses I thought about my friends son. When he was in high school he was kind of a quirky boy genius who wore bowling shirts and other outlandish outfits he bought from the Goodwill. He was always creating doing things without much thought or preparation. Once he painted his bike with spray paint inside the garage with his mother's car. He and we never heard the end of it.
He is all grown up now living in D.C. and working for an advertising agency. He has a new baby and a wife that is a lawyer and they seem to be happy. His is a success story owed partly to Al-Anon and his mother's dedication to the program and letting him live his own life while she lived hers.
My friends from the program watched him and his sister grow up and they have done well. Still some scars from the alcoholism in their life but who doesn't have some scars for something.
I didn't paint my project in the garage with the door closed but lets just say luckily my house is already gray on the outside.
It's good to hear success stories from the program and how people get their lives together. I came late to Al-Anon but know that it is where I need to be.
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