“…I guess it was just built out of words. A paper-box house. The second it began raining, it couldn’t hold up.’ -Mari Andrew
Today is the 🌓🌔🌕 moon is waxing to full; it is ✅ Day 93/100 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 August 31. 😊 … However, [freedom] is my guide words for 2026 (and I am in the midst of my radiation ☢️ treatments), so please take that into consideration. 🪂
“People talk a lot about ‘the right person.’ I hate this concept. … It is a constant guessing game, predicting the accurate combo of app and profile and intention in order to unlock the Right Person.” -Mari Andrew
Braveheart, we have all fallen into the trap of seeking “the right person” or “the best choice” within our wild and precious lives. It is a form of perfection 🧬 (wanting to control) and it is a common human response. 💙
But we can always trust ourselves because we each have our own “super power” in the form of intuition. ➡️➡️➡️ It is the slowing down + writing [it] down that allows us to be aware of what we desire.
“As women we call upon our intuition and instincts in order to sniff things out.” -Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Mari realized her superpower was discovering 🪄 magic, and being able to notice it made it more likely to happen. She began to see it was also blocking her from seeing things as they were.
Although I will celebrate 36 years with my partner in September, Mari’s dating stories still struck multiple cords from my dating 💔 memories.
But her stories also cued thoughts about how I tend to notice 🪄 magic … and then slip into multiple imaginary scenarios that never happen. And not in the good way. 🙈
💁🏻♀️ Especially the imaginary scenarios that are overwhelming 🫣 what-if outcomes regarding the people I love so dearly.
But also—my ability to notice 🪄 magic + my imagination (and “retraining” it) is 💯 why I am a right brain planner. 😊
Braveheart, I have always noticed magic—and I have a lot of thoughts and words—so having some way to prevent the dreams inspired by that magic, and all those thoughts and words, from 📦⛈️ sagging in the proverbial rain of life-challenges is 💯 essential.
Allowing my 📔 journal to be my 📆 “planner” ensures a solid foundation + a supportive framework for my ☁️💙☁️ dreams.
As a practice (trying over and over), right brain planning has helped me to redirect my energies when doubt and anxiety 😥 begin to rise ⬆️ and my imagination takes 🚀 off in “unhelpful” ways. 🫣
✅ Right brain chronicles (jotted notes, 🌈 color vents, ✂️📐 collage and 🖊️ doodles of our 💭 ponderings and 🗓️ dated mental wanderings) are the data + a map of our living, serving as a tangible record of:
- questions and 🪄 wishes
- keywords and phrases 📝
- daydreams and nighttime dreams 💤💭💤
- what we feel and think 🙃😐😣😜
- what we want to experience ❤️
- what we need to foster our well-being ♻️
- what we want to discover and learn about 🧠🤓
- sky meditations + phases 🌙 (everything cycles)
✅ Right brain chronicles can become a sacred 📿 space for 🌀 processing what we need and desire—space where we 🔎 observe and process the data of Life; and to ♻️ empower us to make 📊 choices (and prioritize) what matters most to us. ❤️
Thank you kindly for your presence here.
I appreciate your interest and support.
~love & good wishes~
Artist’s Statement 😊🔮🔎📝🖌️🎨❤️📊
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