This weekend I am working a craft fair. My daughter and I make soap and hand salve and go to fairs to sell them. Yesterday the weather was beautiful but today it was windy. Really windy.
I noticed when I got there and the canopies were trying to fly away. We were all standing next to our tents holding the sides down. Luckily our tents are staked down pretty well and held steady.
But as I sat there in the wind I decided to consciously try and make the best of things. For instance, it wasn’t all bad. My hair was blow dried in about five minutes.
I thought I would open my mind and let all the negativity blow away but the wind pretty much blew all my thoughts away so I just sat there for a while with a blank expression on my face.
Every now and then the wind would die down for a minute and it was quiet and lovely so I thought I would practice being the calm at the center of the storm but what I really did was practice keeping a calm expression on my face in case my canopy did fly away. Some ladies came by to look at our soap and I mentioned to them that I was the calm center of the storm and one of them said she would at least appreciate being near the calm center even if she couldn’t be the center and I said I pretty much had that job wrapped up.
A high point of my morning was when I went to use the porta-potty and saw in the mirror that my hair was holding up pretty well.
I read Entrepreneur magazine in the afternoon and tried to think of a new business to start. An inside business. At five o’clock I headed home to a cup of hot tea and solid walls. Ah, how quiet and serene.
Tomorrow I’ll go back at ten and do it all again.
Sat, Mar 27, 2010
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