Welcome to the Gathering Pod, the audio version of my weekly gathering room broadcast. I'm Martha Beck.

Today I hope you're excited to hear about the joys of effing up, the grace in effing up.

I have searched my soul this day to find the grace of effing up because I have been

effing up so very much. For example, I was supposed to tell you right before I started talking

that this is, that the gathering room is also an audio podcast called the gathering Pod available on podcast platforms. I didn't even

know that was happening. It just people did it for me. It was amazing. Thank you. So yeah, I screwed

that one up and I've been screwing up everything. And that's really not much different from the

other times that we've been

doing the gathering room. It's just really up for me today because we've had a kind of a stress on

the household. We've had a family member sick and had to, you know, somebody had to leave. And

we run a tight ship around here. And when someone's missing, we have to work double speed.

And I just can't do anything right this week.

Like every little thing I had to write for work, I had to write over.

Like not just that I didn't do a good job.

I forgot and wrote on the wrong topic and did it twice

before I remembered the topic. I forgot important appointments. I didn't even set up some

important appointments. I broke one of the dogs. Lord knows if she can, she can't even use one back

foot. I don't even know it. And I've also continued,

in case you've been listening to these in order, to try my hand a little watercolor painting.

And for me, this is like such an obsession. And it's so dumb to be obsessed with, for me to be obsessed with this because

I'm not a professional artist. I don't know what dumb is. I probably screwed up just saying that.

But here's the thing. I've been working so hard to get certain effects in watercolor.

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