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{Prep for} My Week #15
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men – that is genius. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Beginning again this week with six index cards for my...
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{Prep for} My Week #19
[last week's complete; template here] 75. Mostly I have felt myself becoming a servant of sadness. I am still looking for the beauty in that. ~Maggie Nelson, Bluets [compass + ICAD #58/61] Journaling...
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Sometimes it feels as if there are no words
I can no other answer make but thanks, And thanks, and ever thanks. Twelfth Night William Shakespeare This post has been a draft since March; opened again in June and July … and two more times before...
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Where it begins …
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. ~Thomas Merton There are times when I rebel against rituals, schedules … accountability. But this week, well, I realized the...
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my April {right brain} planning pages, jots & rhythms
All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused. ~Martha Graham Jots to Post-it® Notes are the...
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Gluebooking //expression & hiding notes to self
Gluebooks {art journals} are a means of processing and thinking through … venting and expressing. Words of the heart and the heat of the moment can be cut and glued strategically. I have an eclectic...
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Week 27 // independence, change and getting something down
Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite — getting something down. -Julia Cameron Getting something down. That describes this week. I have learned love has rules for some people, and...
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where are you in-community?
Community fosters inquiry and discovery regarding the options for accomplishing what we love. It facilitates perspective; it is the silent witness we need to believe {a little bit more} in our dreams...
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September reflections
We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer’s wreckage. We will welcome summer’s ghost. -Henry Rollins September will be blue in my mental color book for 2014. It was...
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journaling prep for “She Journals”
Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. … Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light....
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Mistaeks are Mandatory — words and art by {courageous} Syda
I had heard of art journaling, but I had no idea what it was or what it would mean to me when I pulled out my oil pastels and a few collage clippings in August of 2010. I was not an artist. I wasn’t...
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the practice of art every day {naming limits}
Art for Day 28 — creating a collage of MS symptoms + needed schedule changes Naming limits rob them of their power, Braveheart. But if you think about it, what is normal? What does it mean? Imagine if...
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time & inspiration #1
inspiration When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. -Rumi Time and inspiration. Time, finite. Inspiration, infinite. And yet we are often convinced we can “make time”...
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time & inspiration #2 {don’t stop until you get what you love}
I was tagged on Instagram and asked about what I am creating today. Which felt like an answer about what to blog with regard to {time and inspiration} #2 … I am creating cover art + a sheet with...
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wishes and wants
I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the years. -Henry Moore While wishes and wants may sound like the same thing, I learn over and over they aren’t. Wishes feel sparkly and boundless and...
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Mistaeks are Mandatory — words and art by {courageous} Syda
I had heard of art journaling, but I had no idea what it was or what it would mean to me when I pulled out my oil pastels and a few collage clippings in August of 2010. I was not an artist. I wasn’t...
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Art with intention {for self-care & coping}
Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story … -Cheryl Strayed I have always chosen the story I will tell myself; it has been chosen...
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reframe {empower instead of debilitate}
My body is a compass — and it does not lie. -Terry Tempest Williams Right brain planning is an intuitive approach to one’s living as well as a creative journaling practice. It facilitates a productive...
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Remembering to Dream — by Jeanne-Marie
Maybe somewhere in us living life, surviving things {really difficult things, at times} and moving swiftly through the child-raising years… we forgot to dream… Dream out loud, dream impossible dreams....
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Mistaeks are Mandatory — words and art by {courageous} Syda
I had heard of art journaling, but I had no idea what it was or what it would mean to me when I pulled out my oil pastels and a few collage clippings in August of 2010. I was not an artist. I wasn’t...
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