inner skies, golden hours & magical things

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My Inner Sky is divided into sections: Golden Hour, Twilight, Night and Dawn

Today is the first quarter 🌓 moon; it is ✅ Day 89/100 of my second 100-Day Project for this year, (theme: Benevolence, Wonder and Meaning).

I will be sharing daily reading notes from My Inner Sky by Mari Andrew through Day 100/100 and until August 31. 😊 … However, [freedom] is my guide words for 2026, so please take that into consideration. 🪂

“Once a place becomes home, it rarely remains magnificent. It’s comfortable, even Manhattan can feel a little boring on a humid Tuesday. That is why it’s a discipline and a practice for me to keep it magical.” -Mari Andrew

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inner skies, present thinking & slow-reading as a way to move through 🔀

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“Paying attention to the rhythms of the natural world helps us to recognize the places within us that call for blossoming, fruitfulness, releasing, and resting.” -Christine Valters Paintner

Braveheart, giving our attention to the sky (moon phases, sun rises/sets, weather patterns and other sky-view events) can serve as an insightful, meditative practice.

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The Artist’s Way: strength

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[This set of card art includes lunar 🌙 phases.] 🥳

“[In] order to move through loss and beyond it, we must acknowledge it and share it. Because artistic losses are seldom openly acknowledged or mourned, they become artistic scar tissue that blocks artistic growth. Deemed too painful, too silly, too humiliating to share and so to heal, they become, instead, secret losses.” -Julia Cameron

For 2026, I am rereading a chapter from The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron and providing a free download of themed art cards on a monthly basis (on the third Tuesdays).

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