I took it back! One day now belongs to the creative me. It’s only one day, just Thursday, but I savor it’s approach with anticipatory glee every day until it arrives. All my other days are taken up with day-to-day chores and must-do’s, but in the back of my mind I am planning. Sometimes there are things I must do, you know how deadlines can loom and you have to complete a part of a project before you can set off on some new adventure. Like this past week when I had to use most of my writing time to do some final edits on my new Adirondack Mouse manuscript. But sometimes I can let my muse run wild with a new story. I have to stop for lunch, of course, and then I can devote my afternoon to painting. Even when things do not go well, when I still don’t have time to write all I had planned or when the brush strokes fall short of my expectations, I am refreshed and renewed by it all. I feel good, I feel free and creative, and that feeling is often enough to carry me through to next Thursday. I’m counting the days right now.