Listen to your Longing…

I have been kind of waiting

to get back into my art journal practice.

Waiting until I had more time.

Waiting until I finished all my Rock Fairy orders.

Waiting and also of yearning and longing.

This morning,

Sunday morning,

I decided to take some of the advice the Universe has been sending my way.

What if this was your one day ?

What are you really waiting for ?

Live your life as if…

Do it now.

I took the advice and dove in…

Using Tattered Angel Glitter Mists, sepia ink with a dip pen, bits of silk sari scraps and my creative juices,

out came this three page spread in a 16 page journal made from Teesha Moore’s technique.

Doodles, and my own play on this quote “Let your Life be A Poem” from Patti Digh.

Eucalyptus leaves as masks then doodled over…

A poem to my Self.

New seeds planted and growing.

Ahhhhh….

It feels good to belong to myself just a little bit more.

 

Happy Sunday, Beautiful Ones !

Postcards from Paradise is hosted each Sunday

by the lovely Rebecca at recuerda mi corazon.

Haiku My Heart–Look Within

 

It’s not outside you.

Realize this, then look in.

Watch beauty unfurl.

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This was a message I got today.

Doesn’t it make you feel more powerful,

more hopeful,

more sure,

to know that the answers,

the strength,

the possibilities,

the Spirit,

is in You ?

I am going to go with that today !

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Stay tuned for more about this precious little butterfly book I created while at e.b.’s house. I have some bits to add to it, and then it may just be available for someone purchase for their very own !

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For more haiku loveliness and wonderful hearts,

head over to recuerda mi corazon.

Happy Friday !

Daily Poetry…

Today on the amazing blog 3X3X365,

South Bend, IN

(aka Kathryn Schuth)

wrote

“What is our daily poetry?”

The idea of our daily life as poetry, as art, struck a cord deep inside me.

As did that idea that we have choice in the kind of poetry we choose to write each day.

Will it be full of “fine” or not so fine whine?

Will it be full of “Oh, poor me!” or “I can’t”s?

Or will it be full of the long list of blessings we can count ?

Of beauties we have around us ?

Of the many ways that LOVE fills us up ?

Oh, that choice, that responsibility isn’t always easy !

In fact, some days, it is incredibly hard.

But life will go by whether we create the art we want to live or not.

So what poetry will you choose to write today, Beautiful Ones ?

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I will share a little bit of mine…

(art journal page ‘ “Plan ? What Plan?”)

What I chose to see in the vast quantity of maple seeds covering the back deck…

The last marigolds from the pot of annuals I have yet to empty on the back deck, tucked into my favorite rock vase.

They all fit together beautifully somehow, don’t they ?

Poetry I set up on my desk to remind me of my work today…

And if you need just a little more inspiration to tap into your own beautiful strength and courage, please read my dear, dear friend Rebecca’s post today. It brought tears of joy to this brave heart.

Light and love,

and happy creating !