“So much of life is spent tending to ordinary things while carrying extraordinary things we never asked for. Routine gives us somewhere to put our feet. It helps us build a life inside circumstances we can’t fix or fully understand.” -Kate Bowler
➡️ I shared details about making marks, asemic writing and other wordless ways of getting [it] out (along with my current favorite pens) in this post.
This past week for me has been brimming with ricocheting realities, so of course, I have been on the 🗣️🎨🖌️🙏🖋️📝 pages of my journals. 😊
- Pen-to-paper, expressing what I feel with doodles, marks, asemic writing and color.
- yellow is the color prompt for November, but red and magenta almost always find their way into my color-vents 💛
The November download for my Ko-fi patrons may be used as guiding content and/or cut-and-collaged onto a monthly calendar, journal page or a dated planner.
☑️ The Ko-fi download for November includes art, content + guiding templates to compile a personal assessment of strengths, weaknesses, threats and opportunities.
- We will be meeting this Saturday (November 7) to discuss this theme and I will also be sharing some art journal prompts and ideas. I would love for {you} to join in, Braveheart! 💕
“There is so much about life we don’t get to choose. The pace of the calendar, for one. … And then there are the things we really didn’t choose. The diagnosis. The loss. The phone call that splits your life into a before and an after. The circumstances you would give anything to change but somehow have to learn to live with.” -Kate Bowler
Braveheart, I am embracing everything right now; I am holding fast to 💗 love and to my freedoms. And I hope you will, too. ~hugs 🫂
Let’s please remember to “stay interruptible. To leave a little room for surprise, even when life hasn’t turned out the way we hoped” (Kate Bowler).
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.
Artist’s Statement 😊🔮🔎📝🖌️🎨❤️📊
⭐️ 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 original 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. (Thank you!) 💗 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. 📲
If you already have your own system of creative journal-planning, but are interested in financially supporting my creative work, you may do so by making a donation:
- Make a one-time contribution in any amount via [this link]. (Thank you!) ❤️