22 overcome

I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom. ~Les Brown

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You cannot let go of anything if you cannot notice that you are holding it. Admit your ‘weaknesses’ and watch them morph into your greatest strengths. ~Neale Donald Walsch

Living with MS, with {mostly} undetermined amounts of energy and focus is my admission; it has become my greatest strength in ways I never could have imagined regarding a fully realized creative life and layers of structure + light. [click to continue…]

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17 TAJ post quote birds in flight

We are ready to take a joyful leap into the vastness, trusting our newly expanded wings to hold us as we soar into a joyful flight of self-expression and fully realized creative life. We will climb and dive and climb again ~ the freedom and power of flight fills us with renewed energy and enthusiasm. Our joy will spread onto our journal pages and all throughout our lives. ~Becky Bowen Craig

 :: a prompt from this month’s The Art Journaler Community journaling prompts, “Taking Flight” … author, Becky Bowen Craig, included some marvelous journal prompts like this for week. [click to continue…]

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Right Brain Planner {monthly subscription}

Are you a right brain planner? Well, we have a template for monthly planning! Subscribe to the Right Brain Planner {monthly subscription} Want more details, Braveheart? Each issue is a compilation of a month’s worth of inspiration + ideas + art journaled notations {photocopied} folded into booklet format — with added stickers and other planner [...]

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Your very own right brain planner! Available as a monthly subscription!

I have been experimenting with ways to offer a tangible {right brain} planner … To aid you in mapping your way to your personal Next, Braveheart. And … I am ever-grateful for the input {and the requests!} for such an item — and I am thrilled to announce a monthly planner is available for subscription: subscribe [...]

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{Prep for} My Week #9

Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world. ~John Burroughs

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Mother’s Day {and other annual opportunities to live the questions}

All of these lines across my face Tell you the story of who I am So many stories of where I’ve been And how I got to where I am ~Brandi Carlile

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52 Weeks of Noting {collage and creative record} 20/52 card — skillfully curled {in} my worlds

yes is a world & in this world of yes live (skillfully curled) all worlds e. e. cummings The past two weeks have been intense with regard to remaining committed to my personal and professional goals. I have this amazing friend who answers my phone calls as if she was waiting for my call, as [...]

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May Calendar {progress and serendipity}

Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked. ~Elizabeth Berg I believe this to be true — so true. Especially since, for whatever reason, I just discovered the fabulous Kate and her calendar series — and the other inspiring artists who create amazing and colorful art-full monthly calendars! [Flickr Art Calendar Group] ♥

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Journaling My Dreams: unseen alignment, flight patterns and other paths in the direction of my dreams

Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. ~Rainer Maria Rilke What are ways you see things setting themselves into an alignment you didn’t [...]

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