[guide words for March]

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“All you need to do is create the space for what you desire, for what you long for. Mystery will graciously walk through the opening and meet you in the expanse. And then, she will carry you home.” -Gina Kimmel

💁🏻‍♀️ Braveheart, during 2026 I will be compiling a monthly page with summary notes and links of current details, elements and resources from my practice.

🗓️ For March, the themes for Ko-fi resources are [attention] and [100-days]—because it is always nice to have options. 😊 And just for fun, I added in some 🌈 rainbow ✂️📏🔖 art prompts and quotations.

writing

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rereading and reading

  • How to Be an Artist by Jerry Saltz
  • Welcome Home: A Guide to Building a Home for Your Soul by Najwa Zebian
  • Syllabus by Lynda Barry
  • Heart Minded by Sarah Blondin
  • Glow in the F*cking Dark: Simple Practices to Heal Your Soul, from Someone Who Learned the Hard Way by Tara Schuster (paused right now)
  • You Are An Artist by Sarah Urist Green (reading & discussing monthly with local friends; notes from July 2025, “How do you perform your new self that you are becoming? -T.J. Dedeaux-Norris)
  • Stop Letting Everything Affect You by Daniel Chidiac

For 2026, I will be reviewing a chapter from The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron and providing a free download of themed art cards on a monthly basis.

my well-worn, altered copy of The Artist’s Way + Chapter 2 prompts

📕 Chapter 1

📕 Chapter 2

“When we say we are afraid to begin a project, we are actually saying something else: ‘I am afraid of how I will feel as I continue.’ We do not want to start because we do not know that we can continue.” -Julia Cameron

starting points + journal practice

  • Starting points continue to include: meditation, breathwork + my “first thoughts” journaling (jots and blurts; to-do lists; miscellaneous notes); movement (stretching for flexibility and release; yoga; dancin’ it out).
    • These small, little things are adding up for me, as peace of mind, clarity and the ability to focus for longer periods of time. 🎉🎉🎉
  • Weekly and daily sequences (reading; writing; courses/co-creating groups; ongoing projects; daily walk).
  • As a means of tracking + using the templates I create for the groups I host, I will be compiling (2) gluebooks:
  • A dated planner with daily vertical columns for notes + tracking my dailies 📊
  • Composition journals (Lynda Barry book-notes; first thoughts, processing & writing notes, project notes)
  • Altering a book [Finding Freedom by Erin French]; adding black Gesso to the pages for journaling (with a white gel pen) + collage and tip-in’s
  • Meeting notes journal (summary notes; follow-up, etc.) 📝
  • 🚫 [paused] Five-year-journal (I started using this journal in 2021; most pages include at least 2-3 entries sections reminding that each year tells its own story, which sometimes includes blank page.
    • Instead, I am keeping a daily 📱 log on Google Keep because it is a grounding practice for me, and I enjoy looking back on energy and behavioral patterns. 🩷
    • I currently have numerous medical appointments, so I have extra waiting time that needs filling. 😉

Note: These journal/planners are only used as needed. Having a specific purpose for each one serves me well. (Braveheart, always do what serves you.)

“Today, I feel stronger, learning to live within the natural cycles of a day and to not expect too much of myself. As women, we hold the moon in our bellies. It is too much to ask to operate on full-moon energy three hundred and sixty-five days a year. I am in a crescent phase.” -Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge

Thank you kindly for your presence here, Braveheart. 💗

I appreciate your interest and support.

~love & good wishes~

⭐️ I am an artist and curator; I am one who communicates with color, found words and collage, inky marks and doodles as I cycle like the moon (as my calendar), chronicling oracles and abiding with the sky as a meditation.

⭐️ I host creative communities, safe spaces for gathering and sharing. I choose love and creativity for coping with the ongoing challenges of this world and I go to work—not because everything is fine but because I believe art heals.

❤️ Braveheart, as the Creator/Artist of Right Brain Planner I am ever-grateful to have the opportunity to share my creative work online + support other creators! 🎉 For almost 20 years I have had the privilege of sharing my art and writing about right brain planning while also hosting kindred 👭🏽💞👭 communities. ✨ I consider it an absolute 🤸 delight to continue this portion of my creative 📝🖌️✂️🫧 work (even as I retire from full-time work).

  • This is possible, in part, by {you} and your presence here. But also because of the support of my Ko-fi patrons and the other member/subscriber communities I host (via their presence, input and paid subscriptions). 🫶
  • 💁🏻‍♀️ Other ways to support my work: continue to read this blog + follow me on Instagram.