Just jumping in to say hello…I know things have been fairly quiet from me for the past month, but it’s all good.
My life feels smoother, my heart feels fuller and my brain is alternating between spinning with inspiration and yet stalled by wonderment….like one foot is on the brake and the other is on the gas...and both are full on!
I've had so many ideas for projects, that I bought a tiny little...bright pink...notebook to jot down all my ideas before they run on ahead of me and leave me behind…yet so many of them still remain just idea’s.
The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.
Lee Iacocca
But…I have started preparing a background on a new canvas, adding multiple layers of paper for texture. I’ve added at least 8 different layers and colours of paint and rubbed each one with ink…wiping it off to bring out the texture. Lots of fun, but I still haven’t decided what to paint on it!
I’ve also designed a quote to be printed on a canvas wrap (to go on my turquoise wall) but haven’t sent it off yet to the printer. (tomorrow…I vow to take my foot off the brake with this one and step on the gas)
Having painted the wall in the hallway, turquoise, I'm not quite as shocked by it any more and decided to continue on and paint a wall in the dining room the same colour…but that’s on hold until the rains drive us indoors again (brake).
I started or rather re-started my digital book project…The A to Z’s of me. I was at least half way through the alphabet when I stopped over three years ago. Several weeks back I looked at it again…and was somewhat surprised at how much I was enjoying it, so I’ve decided I’m too far into it, to not finish it! Each "letter" has a digital design on one page as well as a written page or two. (gas pedal)
I’ve designed another website, but haven’t decided yet if I’ll use it. (foot definitely on the brake).
I DID finish another Blurb book…all 114 pages of it…last years blog posts and photographs in print and it’s been sent off to Blurb for printing. (gas pedal, gas pedal! I’m doing the happy dance over this!)
And there’s more, so many more ideas, but I need to finish up the old before I dive into any more new projects
As I was writing all of this down, it dawned on me just what September has been about for me. As I mentioned in a previous post, I’ve felt all month like I was in a “holding pattern” and I can now see quite clearly that it’s been a time of wrapping things up...ideas and generally just a lot of old energy. I needed to bring closure to so many things, not just projects but even remenents of old thought patterns and parts of me that I’m well and truly finished with. They’ve been good and have supported me while I needed them but it was time to clear up the old, so that I can step into the new.
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
Benjamin Disraeli
Do you feel a quickening of energy? An underlying current of excitement beyond the fear? Are you seeing glimpses out in the world (and in your own world) of people reclaiming their power? Taking a new step? Uttering a new word?
Oh my friends, stay in wonderment…we live in exciting times.
addendum: just a few hours after I published this post, I received this in my inbox...I like to think that it's angelic confirmation that I'm on the right track!
(the photo’s above were taken at Elk Lake park, about half way between our home and Victoria. The path winds around the lake (10 k’s/6.5 miles) and as always with nature, every changing season brings something new to see and delight me).
