MOJO

About a month ago I lost my mojo...

I was having difficulty with some new clay

I wasn't feeling THE LOVE with my work

I was snowed under with school assignments, my part time job and running kids around to sporting practice and events etc...

THEN

The kids all got tonsillitis

I lost the internet for a week

I lost the phone connection for 4 days

The sewerage blocked up and leaked all through the laundry and toilet

My kiln elements needed replacing

I replaced them, and 1 popped out of the socket and short circuited all the others

the thermocouple in the kiln needed replacing too

I lost a whole kiln load of work

I received heaps of bills in the mail

The house looked trashed, washing hung everywhere, dishes in the sink

A trip to the doctor, which resulted in a referral to a specialist

THEN

a friend of one of my boys passed away suddenly and unexpectedly

he was 13 years old

We attended the funeral as a group (the boys played football together, so all wore their colours)

Standing room only

After the funeral I received an email from the team manager....

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Hold your sons close tonight and let us appreciate all that we have

Enjoy those dirty clothes on the floor

The footy boots at the door that we always trip over

and the early morning starts on a freezing Sunday morning

We are very lucky we still have these things

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and I realised that life wasn't so bad after all.

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