Phone Call Interrupted

1/25/14
11x15 collage on paper

Phone Call Interrupted

Today's collage reflects some of my thoughts on the nature of phone calls that I seemed to keep having with various people this past week.  

Never knowing what I'll get on the other end of the line, a point of growth for me is having the strength to interrupt the crazy on the other end of the line and retreat to the calm, quiet, peace that I've been trying to cultivate in my life instead.  I've been trying to recognize more quickly when people are in a situation that they feel passionate about, and know that sometimes it's a situation they need to be passionate for their personal life lessons- but not something I need to be sucked into with them. 

I had to hang up and, while my blood pressure returned to normal, repeat the mantra...  

"I AM not moved by things that I hear or things that I see," from Christina Lunden.  Thanks, Christina, for the alternative response to stressful conversations.