To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal and valuable in yourself and your own personal evolution.
Jean Shinoda Bolen
Week 11/52 was about breakthroughs and celebrating personal progress, being outdoors and reframing productivity, along with book discussions with kindred friends.
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.
[Fulfillment] might lie in embracing, rather than denying, our temporal limitations …
Oliver Burkeman
Week 11/52 In-Review
These weekly reviews are the ongoing backstory that empowers me to process what I am curious about, and how I live + chronicle what matters most to me.
This compilation allows me to document, discern and ponder my living along with the ebb and flow of certainty, uncertainty and random details mingled with the details and challenges of daily minutia and my story-unfolding. ♥
steps toward my Next | habits of resiliency | sojourn with grief | is your storyline authentic? | Life is ongoing … | [creating a visual vocabulary] | a day of fruition & light | action by action; alignment
“The work reveals itself as you go” (Rick Rubin). We know as we go, Braveheart.
- While I readily acknowledge this (that the work reveals itself), I have been carrying seeds, ideas and starting points, for a visual language of color, shapes and marks for tracking details of my living for going on (5) years now: [creating a visual vocabulary] the challenge of it
“Age is giving me the two best gifts: softness and illumination. It would have been nice if whoever is in charge of such things doled them out in our younger years, but that’s not how it works. Age ferries them across the water, and they will bring us through whatever comes.” –Anne Lamott
[of interest, comfort & inspiration]
🌸 “The greatest gift that people can accept at any age is that we’re on borrowed time and they don’t want to squander it on stupid stuff.” @AnneLamott 🌸 a short story (with pictures!) ❤️🩹 the past / the future 🌸 grieving is like facing a thousand goodbyes 🌸 Cecilia Blomdahl: this tree cabin in Norway | the beauty of Svalbard | January in the darkest place on earth | Svalbard’s incredible views 🌸 If the silent scream lives inside you 🌸 Bullet Journal (for tracking and visual data) 🌸 On Being, Oliver Burkeman | Blinkest, Four Thousand Weeks | Book Notes on Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman 🌸 you are not one thing 🌸 You Are Not Your Feelings 🌸 breaking old patterns
As a part of my therapy, I have been processing the realities of what I experienced as a mother with very little support + default parent resentment (while also living with the challenges of hormonal imbalance + caring for extended family members and ovarian cancer).
Tracking my days + counting weeks assists me in being attentive to my energies.
- It helps me to be aware of the cyclical energies, habits and patterns of my living — and to resist overthinking/fretting about the “highs and lows” of those cycles.
- Chronicling these events also helps me to identify the details and decisions of what I can influence and modify — and release myself from any undue sense of duty or responsibility regarding what I cannot influence or modify.
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. 🎉