The Art & Poetry of Mary Coleman

So I’ve started writing in preparation for National Poetry Month. Will try to get a poem in a day for all of April. These are for the past 3 days.

When I was five I wanted to be in paleontology but I was super into dinosaurs at that time like a lot of other kids that age. That didn’t really stick and by the time I was around 7 I had lost interest in dinosaurs. I still love seeing their skeletons at museums though, a bit of my childhood excitement returns when I get to see dinosaur bones in real life.

So I have established a daily routine as mostly habit and achieved my New Year’s resolutions around it. Exercise is habit now and I look forward to doing it each day. Eating one meal a day is habit now, and though I do fall off the wagon a few times a month, it’s easy to pick back up the next day. Creativity each day is coming more easily. I’ve barely missed a day of doing something creative in the past 8 weeks. I’ve incorporated daily coping strategies for panic disorder that have become habit now. I’m only getting very mild panic attacks infrequently, so I’ve nearly been cured.

Overall I’m getting all my intentions done each day without much resistance anymore. It was really hard the first few months of the year. Building habits takes a lot of time! I never felt like doing anything in my new routine at first, especially not exercise. That’s all changed. Now I need to work on going on Instagram every day. That’s not habit yet, and I still resist doing it quite strongly. In May I will introduce some new resolutions since I have mostly achieved the ones I made in January.