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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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Are you a right brain planner?

right brain planner

are your a right brain planner

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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 ephemera — placed in a postal envelope and delivered to {amazing and creative} you once a month!

  • themed motivation and articles
  • photographic images//theme visuals
  • hand-crafted collaged pages and
  • hand-written notations + quotations
  • stamped lettering + collaged word messages
  • an art-full {month-at-a-glance} monthly calendar
  • {creative} planning prompts + visual planning cards

Opt to keep the pages of this booklet together in its envelope or cut and tear away the images or syllables that speak to you — that seem to whisper your name — reminding you dreams do come true!

Feel free to create + add your own pages, adding paint and torn bits of paper + Post-it® notes and doodles and whatever else strikes your fancy, Braveheart!

And let’s share images + blog posts using the hashtag #myrbp so we can collaborate across miles, state lines and international time zones! :mrgreen:

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Because we live outside the lines of “normal” and “should” … in a {no rules} practice of {catch and release} … embracing what facilitates ease; accessing {and releasing} what imposes should’s and shall’sas much as that depends upon us.

The mission of Right Brain Planner is to provide visuals and practical ideas about art journaling, creative day planning, visual journaling — and {you belong} because you have been dancing to your own beat for longer than you can even remember, Braveheart!

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Click to subscribe to the Right Brain Planner and if you are already a subscriber to The Art Journaler Community be sure to let me know that when you subscribe!

Because …

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Here are some of the images from my collection of 2.5″x 2.5″ cards with my Instagrams. Which is a part of the bonus collection of art journaling ephemera I will enclose in your monthly planner mailings! So please be sure to let me know when you subscribe to the {right brain} monthly planner — so I can be sure to add special goodies to your envelope! :D

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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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May Calendar {download}

From my right brain planner … something new for me: month-at-a-glance {collage} calendar! AND, you may download a digital copy of it {free} as a .pdf file! Click here.  

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