[week 10/52 review] rewilding (and living-changes)

All that you touch you Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is change.
Olivia E. Butler

Week 10/52 was about breathwork, recovery, living-changes, re-wilding and trusting what I know.

Having a sense of structure in place makes “it is easier to thrive and flourish” (Julia Cameron). My creative structure (sequences and task lists + compiling these weekly summaries of what I am reading and observing) serves me as both a balm and compass.

Even if you don’t believe it or feel it 100%, it can be of great help to write down the things you want to be true about your life and work. (If you believe otherwise, why write?)
Austin Kleon

Week 10/52 In-Review

“I generally have four or five books open around the house—I live alone; I can do this—and they are not books on the same subject. They don’t relate to each other in any particular way, and the ideas they present bounce off one another. And I like this effect. I also listen to audio-books, and I’ll go out for my morning walk with tapes from two very different audio-books, and let those ideas bounce off each other, simmer, reproduce in some odd way, so that I come up with ideas that I might not have come up with if I had simply stuck to one book until I was done with it and then gone and picked up another.” -Octavia E. Butler

Learn more about the life and work of Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006) here.

By embracing growth, may there be room to become more authentically you, day by day. Not because everything will make sense all of the time but because growth creates room for you to become more aware of who you are and who you are not.
Morgan Harper Nichols

Handwritten notes on inside cover of one of Octavia E. Butler’s commonplace books, 1988. Octavia E. Butler papers. The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Copyright Estate of Octavia E. Butler.

“For [Olivia E. Butler], imagination was not only for planting the seeds of science fiction—but also a strategy for surviving an unjust world on one’s own terms. Her work often takes troubling features of the world such as discrimination on the basis of race, gender, class, or ability, and invites the reader to contemplate them in new contexts.” –Why should you read sci-fi superstar Octavia E. Butler?

When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.
Octavia E. Butler

“It is often said that those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it. Butler put it this way: ‘To study history is to study humanity. And to try to foretell the future without studying history is like trying to learn to read without bothering to learn the alphabet.’ Preserving archives, and providing access to them, is a way to access history. They help us ask important questions, not just about how to be a successful writer, but about what defines success—not just, ‘How were racism or sexism experienced in the 1970s?’ but ‘What can we learn from those who rose above racism and sexism?’” Art Papers, The Octavia E. Butler Collection

Boundaries aren’t just about telling other people what to do. They are also about holding yourself accountable for creating your life.
Nedra Glover Tawwab

🪶🦋💢 [value] creativity — “to use imagination to transcend ordinary thinking and generate new ideas” – @lisacongdon ♦️

🌗🌘🌑 As a lunar practice I have been 🔎 reviewing the (10) value cards I chose to prioritize with my 🔺🔻 kaleidoscope perspective 💬 for 2024.

Breathwork is where you consciously alter your breathing pattern to achieve a set of results such as helping you to relax, raise your energy, increase your immune system, change your state of consciousness or calm your parasympathetic nervous system.
Mike Maher

I am revisiting the writing and art I created during my 2023 100-Day Project. (Which actually was a 50-day project because I ended up being away from home during May and most of June last year.)

💢 In 2023, I published a daily blog post + compiled a daily line-journal chronicling my daily writing and art. (Pictured here with my altered 📕 book right brain planner.)

🔎 Braveheart, I highly recommend reviewing your journals and the difficult projects you have worked on over the years. 👏👏👏 It is an affirming experience and offers insight that is ✳️ essential in order to progress 📈📊📈 within our creative practice. 👏👏👏

Thank you kindly for your presence here, Braveheart.

I appreciate your interest and support.

~love & good wishes~

2024 Right Brain Planner® Kit | field notes | Right Brain Planner® FAQ

2024 Right Brain Planner® Kit [Theme] Kaleidoscope Perspectives ✨ [Focus] — Noticing Beauty (within the kaleidoscope of your living: the ongoing, ever-changing “formations” of color and meaning)

❤️ 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 since 2008! 🎉 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 other member/subscriber communities I host (via their presence, input and subscriptions).

P.S. I have been devoting more time to writing here about my creative practice. 😊 I hope you will join me here, Braveheart. 🎉