Artemis II & Moon joy (and right brain planning)

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Astronaut Christina Koch Image Credit: NASA

“There’s one new thing I know and that is: Planet Earth—you are a crew.” -Christina Koch

“Artemis II will always be remembered. It was the moment we all saw the moon again, where childhood dreams became missions. You helped the world start believing again, and this is something no one’s ever going to forget.” -Jared Isaacman, NASA administrator

[Freedom] is my current guide word for this year and it has been a delight to view the Artemis II journey to the dark side of the Moon and back (the ultimate freedom).

I can only imagine the amazement and sense of freedom of traveling through space, and setting a new record for farthest flight from Earth. 👩🏼‍🚀🚀

Braveheart, we each hold the key that unlocks the doors we need to walk through in order to move into our Next journey into the unknown, our own proverbial dark side of the Moon.

Earthset, Image Credit: NASA

What does this have to do with right brain planning?

Every day is a gift. 🎁 Simple chronicles of the details (thoughts, events and emotions) of our days is a way to cope + know ourselves + map our desires.

Tracking (and reviewing) our thoughts and routine activities [along with whatever has our attention] reveals our beliefs and values—and helps us to discover meaning and the details of our rhythms.

Showing up for ourselves on the page—along with setting aside time and space on a regular basis for both tangible and intangible processing is how we come to identify our desires + get clarity.

  • Everything is an opportunity. Everything we have experienced, lived and loved, questioned and lost is a part of our wholeness.
  • Right brain planning is a practice that invites you to devote time and attention to expression and a dated chronicle of your personal data (highs, lows and in-betweens) to assist you in your ongoingness.

And, Braveheart, there is enough time and space and energy for our dreams and desires, wishes and want-to’s, and our ❤️‍🩹 healing (even when we doubt all of that).

Our dreams take time. Without some type of visual chronicle to serve as a “map”—as well as a reminder and directive—the timelines of our desires and experiences become jumbled. What matters most becomes ignored and forgotten.

The pages of my right brain planners hold the details of my dreams and disappointments, everyday delights, discoveries and conclusions.

This year those details have been chronicled via monthly reviews, slow-journaling, tracking hope and joy as a practice, noticing goodness as well as my 100-Day project.

Having some type of daily/weekly/monthly/lunarly 🌑🌓🌕🌗🌑 system helps to manage the urge to jump into distraction and get “lost” in the space in-between.

If you are in need a Day One, a new beginning + a system to accomplish your creative work on a continuum, I hope you will consider beginning (or resuming) your own right brain planning practice.

This free download offers you space and inspiration:

 

“Let the thing you are doing be nothing, you are making nothing at all, you are just keeping your hands in motion, putting one thing down and then the next thing down and sometimes crying in between.” -Lynda Barry

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). 🫶
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