I was amazed with the depth of color — and the way the inky marks and indigo background made it pop! 👏👏👏 I used Daniel Smith watercolor sticks 🖌️ and a Pigma Micron .08 pen.
Braveheart, without tools [resources and ideas], support and encouragement to enable us to express and name our emotions, needs and desires, we disconnect from our feelings and default to determining our needs, desires and worth based on other people’s opinions.
- Sometimes getting started means compiling a list of doable ✅ steps.
- This also helps to sidestep the [overthinking | avoiding] phase. 🙃
Each person’s life is like a mandala — a vast, limitless circle. We stand in the center of our own circle, and everything we see, hear and think forms the mandala of our life.
Pema Chödrön
Mandala art appeals to me because of the meditative nature of painting circles. I think of the: circle of Life; Rilke’s ever-widening circles; Life as living our rings (like 🌳 trees).
miscellany
Random highlights worth sharing because I am closing tabs as I compile notes:
- Living a Meaningful Life [Leo Babauta]
- Thirsty For Wonder [Mirabai Starr]
- How to support your mental health during big life changes [Ofosu Jones-Quartey]
- Expressive writing can help your mental health [James Pennebaker PhD]
- The half apology “Honoring the moment, an apology is a chance to reconnect and actually move forward. If that’s not your goal, a half-apology might be fine, but don’t expect much to come of it.” -Seth Godin
- Joyce J. Scott: Walk a Mile in My Dreams at the BMA 🎥
I love the bold color of Jane Davenport watercolors for this mandala; accents added with a white Gelly Roll 10 and black Pigma Micron pens.
[If] one’s goal is self-recovery, to be well in one’s soul, honestly and realistically confronting lovelessness is part of the healing process.
bell hooks
The moon cycle is a natural reminder of how life itself cycles. And that when we resist the power our intentions and choices, we are allowing our decisions to be made by ongoing realities (and other people).
Braveheart, as the moon 🌙 wanes to a new cycle — I invite you to consider what intentions and micro-movements could facilitate the 🔮 details you need (and want) to experience in your 🧠 mind, 🤸🏻♀️ body and ✨📿 soul?
Your old self can no longer sustain the life you are trying to lead; it is time for reinvention and rebirth.
Brianna Wiest
I enjoyed all three seasons of “Dickinson” on Apple TV this month. (Such an inspiration!) 🐝🌳☠️
- Emily Dickinson wrote almost 100 poems on 🐝 bees — and was a devoted and keen observer of the natural world, with a vivid imagination.
[Sit] down to meditate not only because it helps you to find rest in the arms of the formless Beloved but also because it increases your chance of being stunned by beauty when you get back up.
Mirabai Starr
Braveheart, Life is a sequence of days during which we make choices about what we want and how we want to live, leading us through an ever-widening spiral away from undesired behavior and outcomes.
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)
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