Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Week 16/52 was about transformations, beginnings and quarter phases, facing forward and trying again (after sorting through details + releasing faulty beliefs) and a weekend 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.
Week 16/52 In-Review
Week 16/52 was a significant week of healing, clarity and release.
Because we know their power, we ask of words to hold what we cannot hold — the complexity of experience, the polyphony of voices inside us narrating that experience, the longing for clarity amid the confusion.
Maria Popova
The days of this week have felt strengthening (and triggering); energizing (and exhausting).
- I worked in my wild gardens; refreshed my knowledge of companion planting.
- I purged more items from the storage bins in my garage.
- My attention (focus) was redirected (via a collection of Instagram posts in a surprising way) and I began to view the past 33+ years from a new (healing and restorative) perspective.
- Life rarely goes as we think (wish) it will.
- Sometimes what gets broken stays broken.
- What is truly ours cannot be missed or taken.
- Curiosity is a form of hope; it is a way to step outside of your framework of understanding.
In language, all things are possible. Which means that no emotion is untranslatable. No sorrow is too obscure to define. We just have to do it. … Despite what dictionaries would have us believe, this world is still mostly undefined.
John Koenig
[my visual journal entries]
☁️💙☁️ [sky meditation] 🍀☕️✨ [luck] 🖥️💭 by request* ♻️ [transformation] 🏡💚 [transformation oracle] 🖤 [reminder to trust your pace] 🎱 [notes from this week] 📱 week 15/52 visual summary 💢 Braveheart, we become what we practice. 🌈☁️🙏 sky meditation 📥 [download] processing necessary boundaries
🦄 “Having boundaries is an act of shifting your habits.” -Nedra Glover Tawwab
Some of these links are to posts I shared in the private communities I host.
[of interest, clarity, comfort & inspiration]
🎧 The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse 💗 be kind to yourself 💸 tax day (Cody Cook-Parrott) 📒 The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows 🎧 What It Really Means to Have Creative Freedom: Lisa Congdon 🦦 surrogate sea otter mothers 🫛 Dr. Georgia Ede 🎶 My Revival – Lauren Daigle 🎥 Tig Notaro: Hello Again 🅐 🅑 🅒 Start an Alphabet Journal 🌀 How to Live Curiously When Things Feel Hopeless 🤎 Katharine Hepburn’s brownie recipe
Transition creates vulnerability. The safety of the old life has been set aside. The safety of the new life is not yet in place.
Julia Cameron
The moment I stop being curious, I stop having empathy. … Without curiosity, what motivation do any of us have to explore, change, and grow?
Laura Miles
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. 🎉