Today I tore apart my family's living room and painted over the hunter green sponging, transforming the space into a soothing, gray-green antique.
Living alone has taught me so many wonderful life skills. I can change a tire, put chains on a Samurai, drive stick shift, teach high schoolers, fix a sink, kill spiders, clean better than a paid maid, prep and paint a room, change the oil in a car, jump start a dead battery, plow snow with a shovel AND with a "lawnmower," do my own laundry, chop wood, sweet-talk the cable guy, change the filters in a spa, cook and bake some interesting dishes ...
the list goes on.
Today's endeavor: teach my mother to paint a room. I have drywall dust caked in my nose from sanding and my fingers are dried out from dipping them in and out of paint but I am satisfied and content, dragging the roller up-down-up-down the wall while the paint slides on the surface like icing on a cake.
As the space transforms, so does my soul. New color, new room, new space. New life.
3 comments:
I've been having that mid life crisis feeling too...or is it mid-20's crisis? at any rate, way too early to be having a crisis of any kind.
it's an awesome time to learn new skills....I'm attempting to learn how to cook, actually. definitely an important skill to have, along with painting.
I believe that John Mayer referred to it as a "quarter-life crisis." And yes, it does exist.
He'd know. That man's a genius.
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