Stretching it out

It has been a pretty long day of travel and a few minor issues, but now I have had a chance to get some actual work done to prep for delivery tomorrow.

This is where I have chosen:

It is a little breezy up here but the day has been close to 30 and I have been dragging a suitcase, a laptop bag and a camera sling bag for 15,000 steps so far today. I think I could have walked from Finland to Germany.

It is going to be a pretty intense week as the training I was meant to deliver has been altered heavily from the usual plans and that means that I have to gap fill on the fly, to fill space. The training is a full day but originally only had 4 hours worth of material assigned to it, so it was going to be a challenge. Now, it is a full-day and the material has been stripped down to about an hours worth at best. I am going to have to talk a lot and unlike @theycallmedan's "best listened to at 1.5x speed", I am going to have to talk at 0.5x.

I can ramble with the best of them but stretching 1 hour of content into 8 might be a little beyond my range. For a mental picture, imagine teaching people how to use Google search, but they don't even need the possible filters.

I do have a nice room for the next 3 nights at least though. It is a pity I am alone though.

While I do enjoy the "me time" where I don't have a thousand one things to do meaning I can focus on what I should be doing, it sucks that I can't have my family with me. At some point I think we will try to set up some of these trips for an extended holiday, but our daughter can't travel out of Finland at the moment.

I wonder what she would say about these fellows?

They were sitting in the window of a little pop art gallery close by as I went to find food and while it was closed, I took a few pics through the window. It isn't my kind of style to hang, but I do like pop art a lot for what it is. If I had a large minimalist house, I think I could have a piece or two of bright work to contrast the flat white or concrete walls.

It kind of makes me want to art a bit again. It has been a long time since I have done any drawing and hope that I have time and patience one day. Patience is an issue for my drawing as I rarely finish and I know that if I try to work while I have other things on my mind, it will just be a waste of time. It has always been one of those things I have had to "be in the mood" for as I am not talented enough to be able to get an adequate result if I am not.

It is also a problem because other than a drawing in a book and my own enjoyment, there is very little personal utility in it as I wouldn't put my drawings on the wall, at least at the place we have. At the moment, there are really only three pieces of art on our wall - a large canvas abstract piece in our living room I made to add some color, a charcoal work in my office which is another semi-abstract piece and, our daughters footprints in pink paint that she and I made as the first Mother's Day gift.

It feels like it is getting late here, but it is only 10 pm. I have a bit more work to do and and early start, but I might have a poke around Steem to see what is going on and perhaps something will take my fancy and I will write. While I like to share these kinds of posts from time to time too, I prefer bouncing content off of what is going on in the community as I feel that it has value for more people.

Having said that though, I am a strong believer in the person over the piece, meaning that while individual pieces might vary in quality, content and personal value - consistency is in the person themselves and getting to know who someone is goes a long way in connecting with the work. when I feel I have an understanding of someone, I am much more open to their content too and as I read their work, I feel that I can better relate and, be more open to listening.

Sometimes getting to know the person also has the opposite effect and no matter what they say, I feel like doing this:

I restrain myself usually.

Taraz
[ a Steem original ]