Daily Painting

I've lapsed in blogging - and how! But this does not mean I haven't been painting daily. It is just that I have not had deeper thoughts when I do paint, and that is because I have been mentally preoccupied with my architecture project: a new house that I am constantly thinking about, even when I am not actively working on the design. That has led me to a new realization that that mental occupation has me: 1. sometimes be unable to fall asleep at night, because my mind is wired and I am thinking, thinking, thinking, 2. leaves no emptiness in my mind to feel relaxed enough to do a good painting where I can meditatively think about the process of the painting, and BE with the painting, 3. makes me paint like I am checking a box instead of getting into the painting - before the process in the inspiration and excitement phase, and during the process, What a dilemma! I think I need to assign days to painting, and days to architecture. Maybe it is to do with the left-brain and