As my friends and colleagues know, I’ve had a long and wonderful career as a landscape architect, then an urban designer, and then leading the planning department for the City of Eugene. Serving our community for many years was immensely rewarding. Before that, I worked in landscape architecture design firms in Portland OR, Germany, and Maine, creating beautiful places for people, as well as habitat restoration, waterway improvements, and other cool projects. Before that, I worked in archaeology, digging and sifting human history for hundred-hour stints in the baking sun. In all these career paths, I grew in ways I’d never thought of before.
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OIL ON BOARD, 82 x 34 in. (collection of Gordon Hotel, Eugene, OR)
Although most of us manage to make it through that first day back at work after a vacation, for example, what about the less urgent stuff? What happens on week three after leaving off your training plan, diet, or whatever good thing you’re doing for yourself? Or, in the case of the self-employed artist, walking back into your mess of a studio after some time away, stacks of blank canvases staring reproachfully from the closet.
Luckily, there’s a solution to all that, at least one that seems to work for me.