#TherapyThursday

There's this weird lie out there that we aren't good, worthy, or enough if we aren't a finished project yet. That unless we are complete we can't take part in, well, life. This is a lie. Let me say it again, it is a lie. We can be "unfinished" and be amazing. I got curious about works of art - if there were any unfinished ones that were considered masterpieces and beautiful. Turns out yes. Yes there are. In case you are interested as I was check out these beautiful masterpieces that are unfinished: Art Interrupted: The 5 Most Famous Unfinished Paintings, The thrilling beauty of unfinished art, Why we love unfinished art.

So there's the evidence, as today's #TherapyThursday quote says, that we can be both a masterpiece and a work in progress and it's beautiful and enough. In fact, unlike paintings that do eventually - for the most part - get finished we don't ever finish until it's our time. And that is what makes us a masterpiece. Always being in progress in a beautiful way to live life.

Think about it this way - once a painting is finished it is done. It can't be brushed up, it can't be "edited" in any way, it is finished. But we get opportunities and chances to continue to grow and improve and heal. People, this is GOOD news! Let's be proud to be a work in progress. Let's embrace the fact that this life is a work in progress and we should be grateful, we can see the beauty in that - we can see ourselves as the masterpieces we are even while the work continues.

For #TherapyThursday I recommend we all take a long look at ourselves and appreciate how masterful we are and how beautiful it is that we are still in progress.

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Butter someone up

There are two probable origins for this idiom and I think both are equally plausible. The first one is that when you spread butter on bread you are buttering it up like one would do when trying to flatter someone. The second is in ancient India there was a practice of throwing balls of butter at statues to ask for favor, i.e. buttering them up. ( source ) When we use the phrase today we generally mean that extreme flattery is used to gain information or favor. It's not always necessarily a compliment.

A dime a dozen

"It's said that in the year 1796, the first U.S. dimes were produced for circulation. Hence, it would make sense for this phrase to originate sometime after." Read more here . Today the phrase carries the meaning that something is cheap or without value if it can be lumped in with other similar or exactly-like things. It's more of an insult than anything.

Life according to van Gogh...sort of

There are two ways of thinking about painting, how not to do it and how to do it; how to do it -- with much drawing and little color; how not to do it -- with much color and little drawing. Vincent van Gogh in a l etter to Theo van Gogh, April 1882 Life is a little bit like today's quote from van Gogh. Some of us live life focusing on the drawing - the details - and have very little color. Others of us go for the color and forsake, to a degree, the drawing - the details. Unlike painting, according to van Gogh, one is not wrong over the other but somewhere in between the two would be the best I would think. If you look at some of van Gogh's paintings I feel like you can see where he might have struggled between the "how to do it" and the " how not to do it" (as he admittedly loved color so much but knew he had to focus more on the drawing) and that seems to be reflected in his life as well. In the end he wasn't able to find the ...

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