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Over the moon excited

Miranda2022-12-31T12:20:04+02:00December 6th, 2022|

Day 6 of #artjournaladvent2022 Every day, I receive a prompt to create a page in my advent art journal. Today's prompt was OVER THE MOON EXCITED The moon has popped up quite a bit this year. In sleepless nights at full moon. In craving water like the moon moves oceans. In poetry written for a writing retreat. In symbols, friends' conversations and songs. I can't say I'm over the moon excited by the impactful planetary movement this year...😂 but it has led me to pay more attention to the bigger [...]

Nature

Miranda2022-12-31T12:17:22+02:00December 5th, 2022|

Day 5 of #artjournaladvent2022 Every day, I receive a prompt to create a page in my advent art journal. Today's prompt was NATURE Nature doesn't hurry and yet everything is accomplished - Lao Tze Since I was a kid, nature has been my playground. Lately it has also become my refueling station. I go on walks to 🌟Breathe 🌟Clear my head 🌟Get inspiration 🌟Be amazed 🌟Get grounded 🌟Listen 🌟Realize all is well in the world 🌟Get perspective 🌟See how small I am in the big scheme of things It's refreshing [...]

What has 2022 taught you?

Miranda2022-12-31T12:17:55+02:00December 4th, 2022|

Day 4 of #artjournaladvent2022 Every day, I receive a prompt to create a page in my advent art journal. Today's prompt was WHAT HAS 2022 THAUGHT YOU? I was going to write this one big lesson about health being everything. But then there were so many little things that popped up. Lessons, aha moments and revelations. So I took my 2022 art therapy journal and leafing through it wrote down all the things that blossomed from these exercises. Wow. So much learning. So much healing. Both bodily and s [...]

Connection

Miranda2022-12-31T12:11:37+02:00December 3rd, 2022|

Day 3 of #artjournaladvent2022 Every day, I receive a prompt to create a page in my advent art journal. Today's prompt was CONNECTION I have been on a journey of inward connection for about a year now. My body has been communicating with me loudly and so I was 'forced' to listen. I crave baths, walks in the woods, creative me-time where I just make things with my hands, massages, time to read a good book and relax on my couch. My inner child, that girl with the flower dress is popping up asking [...]

View outside your window

Miranda2022-12-31T12:09:27+02:00December 2nd, 2022|

Day 2 of #artjournaladvent2022 Every day, I receive a prompt to create a page in my advent art journal. Today's prompt was VIEW OUTSIDE YOUR WINDOW It's Friday and I have the day off. I love Fridays off. And looking out my window it feels like it's going to now today. I love nature and often bring in flowers, plants and sticks. I used a dried one to add to today's collage. I'm lucky to live in a village in the countryside so that I can just step outside and be in the woods or surrounded by soot [...]

Enthusiasm

Miranda2022-12-31T12:07:05+02:00December 1st, 2022|

Today is the first day of #artjournaladvent2022 Every day, I receive a prompt to create a page in my advent art journal. Today's prompt was ENTHUSIASM It immediately made me think of myself as a little girl. A time without worries, where cutting, pasting and creating was a daily activity, just for fun, no pressure, not even an expected outcome. I loved paper back then and still do. I loved creating back then and still do. I had so much ENTHUSIASM back then. And so much less nowadays. I want to [...]

Recede

Miranda2022-12-31T12:03:14+02:00November 27th, 2022|

RECEDE A weed grows in my garden nothing else just a weed It looks pretty in the morning fairy like almost freed It shows me where I haven’t tended neglected not paid heed It grows despite my indifference unnurtured what if I concede? I walk over and stand next to it grateful for its seed The garden is not lost I can let it grow if I recede [...]

Not knowing

Miranda2022-11-13T11:03:09+02:00November 13th, 2022|

We like to have a certain control over our lives. That’s why we plan, make to do lists, create projects. Everything in our society is set to reduce uncertainty. The pandemic brought a certain shift in that. We realised that control is really very flimsy and that we have no grip at all on anything. Slowing down, waiting, not knowing, postponing, patience. These don’t sit well in our busy and fast paced lives. But worrying, pushing and pulling and controlling do not prevent chaos and disaster. Ev [...]