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Here’s some happy art I made.
You know, sometimes, it seems I can’t help but get mad at everything that makes my life great. It’s a character flaw, I think. I spend more time than I like to admit, cursing at all my blessings. I mean, look: It’s great to have a challenging job that pays pretty well, even though it stresses me out and makes me crazy. It’s great to have three great kids who are healthy and creative and have minds of their own, even though they often frustrate me or make me feel inadequate to the task of raising them. It’s great to have a wife that has stuck with me for years and loves me like crazy, even though she drives me up a wall on a regular basis. It’s great to have faith and a belief that God loves me and the community of believers I hang around with are challenging and active and take up a lot of time and energy. It’s great to have hopes and dreams even though I get frustrated chasing after them. It’s great to have a big pool of family and friends, even though it takes a lot of time and energy to keep in contact with them. It’s great to have opposition and tension, even though I decry it as exhausting… without tension, there’s no creation. It’s great to be loved, even though I always fear I don’t deserve it, and it could disappear at any moment. And it’s great to have limits, even though some part of me believes I really don’t and shouldn’t, and that I should be perfect and independent at all times… instead of imperfect and requiring of help, love, friendship and guidance.
Know what I mean? Blessings everywhere. It’s just me that can’t always see them.
But I see them tonight, and I’m posting this here so that I can refer to it when I need to, which likely will be daily. And maybe, if you’re like me, it’ll help you.
I’m a lucky person. And I’m a lot happier than I think I am.
Posted on May 15, 2010 with 1 note ()
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Todd Mauldin is a blues philosopher living in Reno, Nevada, who performs solo, as well as with his partner Jack Doyle as The Hellbusters.
The Hellbusters debut CD "Guilty" is available and fairly popular worldwide among those who like their blues hard, immediate, intimate and lightly cooked.
Todd Mauldin's solo show, featuring spoken word and hard country blues, is being performed to positive reviews.
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