Hello First name / friend , 

 

Today is my 45th birthday (well, birthday eve at the time of writing this). And yes, this is Mindful Monday, and I'm sending it to my whole community, because it's my party and I can! 🥳

 

As I mentioned last week, I've been full-tilt-ahead since the last week of school. Today was filled with tidying, groceries, laundry and other tasks. I finally retreated to my studio to try out a Mason jar rubber stamp I bought on my recent trip to Vancouver. I don't often use stamps but I've been drawing some jars lately and thought that this one would be so fun to play with. I stamped it onto one of my scrap papers and then wrote a poem using only a single page from a book. It was just a quick session in the studio but it delighted me to make something for myself. 

― Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

 

I've been reading Natalie's book during my sundeck mornings. It's one I'd highly recommend. The quote above about writing is so true of any creative practice. I create art and write to discover. What I create on the page - in images and words - can delight me, provide me comfort, surprise me, validate me, question myself, honour my feelings…the list goes on. The discovery isn't always deeply profound, but the opportunities to discover exist because I keep showing up. 

 

 

 

I'd love to hear from you in our online community. Please join us, if you haven't already and feel free to post your writing, thoughts, creations, photos. We'd love to see it!

 

Today I'll be hiking to an alpine lake and swimming. And let's hope there will be 

chocolate cake at some point too! 

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