Page 12 Brings A New Character...A Bottle Nose Dolphin Named Doreen

My daily schedule goes like this. I get up at 6am and walk Willy. Then I make breakfast, which is usually a banana-kale-chocolate smoothie. After breakfast I study Japanese for 30 minutes, then I go to work on my real world job by 8:30am. At 10:30am I work out and mediate for 90 minutes, then have lunch at noon. After cooking and eating and doing the dishes I start the second part of my day by 1:30pm. I take an afternoon break at 4:00pm and walk Willy and hang out outside for a while, if the weather allows. After the break I go back to the studio and continue working. At 7pm I wrap up any loose ends and create a post for this blog. When the blog is submitted, it’s automatically sent to my Tumblr page, https://doukat.tumblr.com/. The images are not transferred automatically so I open Tumblr and add the image to the page. From 8pm to 9pm is family time. My day ends at 10pm when I go to bed. I always read at night before I go to sleep. Always.

That’s what my ideal day looks like, but it’s not always ideal, especially when I’m working at a job outside of the house. There are always emergencies and problems that interrupt my blissful groove. At those times, I have to steal time from my art projects, never from family time or reading time.