I am not sure what I am in real life. Occupying a space in my head has always been a comfortable affair. The imagination makes for a perfect mistress. Until recently I could always say I was that person who occupied a job and its role, one in which for the best part of 32 years I did in various forms serving, caring, helping the 'mentally ill' [inverted comas indicate suspended reality by which I mean its a term, its language, its not necessarily truly representational]. When that is stripped away, like putting aside a well worn suit, you have to find some other clothes to wear and if there is no option to have a new suit, what do you occupy as a space. I do sometimes put on the old suit, literally, when I step back in that world for a bit of consulting but I have deliberately kept that to a minimum because I wanted to try some other stuff and at this fine old age of 51, try it before I died!
MyEdDy (see myeverydaydaddy.com) was one of the first new roles I took on with gusto. One moment I was working flat out and the next I was that SAHD(stay at home dad) and Housewife. However I was also pursuing another passion as part of the new found space I had to occupy, artist. So I decided to bring aspects of my former life together with my new emerging self here at Curiousfutures. So lets see what happens, there's always daytime TV if it goes pear shaped!
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