Austin Kleon interviewed artist Sally Mann and her answer to, “Describe a perfect day,” was spot on:
Every day is a perfect day. I am the luckiest person alive. The unmeasurable, incalculable complications of family and property and animals and career are all luxurious complications: I am lucky to have them and they enrich my life, even as they cause me to grind my molars into shards.
I’m going to remember that phrase the next time I start stressing about remodeling or using the PET PRO URINE REMOVER carpet cleaner. “Luxurious complications” instead!
(Bonus, she lifts! “Now, at age 74, three days a week I lift weights (I mean, heavy weights) and do planks until my whole body is shaking, and weighted squats, lunges, crunches. Two days a week I row, between 8 and 12K, ie between 40-50 mins, and the two remaining days I run 3 miles on a hilly trail on the farm. I hate every minute of it. I never miss a day.”)