I was thinking in the shower the other morning. It's where I do my best thinking actually, and I've taken to leaving pen and paper on my dresser to jot down my thoughts because I've often forgotten that one great idea and then lamented because it was gone.
So there I was in the shower, thinking about a portrait project I recently started, and it came to me why I'd started the project in the first place, leading me to the title for the series, which I quickly wrote down when the shower was over.
The train of thought started with me thinking about gossip and how I hold secrets that don't belong to me. Hearing something first-hand, that story is mine to hold. Hearing a story second-hand means the story was never mine.
I've been told things by people for as long as I can remember. I'll often hear, "I normally don't share so much..." and I think it influenced why I became an acupuncturist. There's nothing I loved more when I was practicing than a first visit intake. 2 hours of stuff, that I could piece and weave together.
I know things I shouldn't know, and since it was always someone else's secret shared with someone other than me, I'm certain the people whose stories I hold wouldn't want me to know either.
It reminds me again about being in business that's not my own and for me that has begun to translate into not engaging. I don't have to be shitty or self-righteous, there are ways of steering a conversation so that it becomes less about gossip and more about the facts.
Slowly I learn, step by step. It's the forward momentum that I've come to appreciate.
I've been told things by people for as long as I can remember. I'll often hear, "I normally don't share so much..." and I think it influenced why I became an acupuncturist. There's nothing I loved more when I was practicing than a first visit intake. 2 hours of stuff, that I could piece and weave together.
I know things I shouldn't know, and since it was always someone else's secret shared with someone other than me, I'm certain the people whose stories I hold wouldn't want me to know either.
It reminds me again about being in business that's not my own and for me that has begun to translate into not engaging. I don't have to be shitty or self-righteous, there are ways of steering a conversation so that it becomes less about gossip and more about the facts.
Slowly I learn, step by step. It's the forward momentum that I've come to appreciate.
