This collection of images from my Instagrams are like mini-badges I earned during the past week … Each one holds special meaning and merit. ♥
There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. … A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise, shall give him no peace. It is a deliverance which does not deliver. In the attempt his genius deserts him; no muse befriends; no invention, no hope. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
Putting my heart into my work — doing my best — in that, even in its varying levels of being and doing, there is {much} peace. And right now there is a new level of contentedness within me. A contentment that I cannot define except that worry and envy are now longer taunting me, weighing me down. Of course, these elements of reality continue to exist in my life but there is a renewed sense of purpose in my work — that my baby steps count now more than ever! 
Within me there is a renewed grace and energy to be me. To live my life.
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