writing Archives - Miranda van den Heuvel

The magic of a forest walk

Miranda2023-03-17T07:20:05+02:00January 4th, 2023|

Today I had some worries and thus some emotions to tackle and walking has always helped me letting emotions course through my body. So at lunchtime, I took myself on a swift walk. It was stormy, but the wind settled into the tree tops as soon as I got into the woods. Suddenly I heard a noise I couldn’t place and it made me jump. A dog? A boar? I stopped and looked around. Nothing. I walked on and it seemed that my senses were heightened. I heard some squeaky noises I couldn’t really place eithe [...]

Numbers

Miranda2023-03-17T07:20:25+02:00December 30th, 2022|

I am participating at @bethkempton Winter Writing Sanctuary and loving it. Here's a poem inspired by the prompts about FRAGMENTS Numbers In the forest B13 the loop around my house 8 made by shapes in the bark 2022 carved by a tourist 1, 2, 3, my steps follow my breathing 10.000 thoughts slowly dissipating 4 formed by the fallen leaves I think I should play the lottery with them Numbers In the forest [...]

The water

Miranda2023-03-17T07:20:41+02:00December 29th, 2022|

I am participating at @bethkempton Winter Writing Sanctuary and loving it. Here's a poem inspired by the first day's prompt. THE WATER The water tugs at my hair my lips are turning blue It is dangerous but I'm having a boo Where will it take me will I arrive before the night It is cold but I'm warm inside The water is moving and I am lingering It is soothing but I'm almost drowning Where will I end up what am I trying to find It is a mystery but I want to stay behind The water is cleansing it w [...]

Boundaries

Miranda2022-12-31T13:09:55+02:00December 28th, 2022|

I am participating in @kasiaavery CareDecember Art Journaling project. This is day 9 prompt: BOUNDARIES This is a topic that has come up a lot recently. For myself and for many of my friends. Boundaries are changing as we change and grow. They are not always easy to put up. They are often difficult to uphold. They are also very hard to move as we become more ourselves. They are essential to our sanity, our growth and our true essence. Boundaries protect our time, our values, our sanity, our int [...]

Impermanence

Miranda2022-12-31T13:07:57+02:00December 25th, 2022|

I am participating in @kasiaavery CareDecember Art Journaling project. This is day 8 prompt: IMPERMANENCE I've had quite a few reminders this year of how impermanent things are. So when I think about that word it also comes with ACCEPTANCE. Accepting that things change. Accepting what is. Accepting that it's not always as I'd like it to be... The way the collage turned out, the word is almost a sentence. I'm permanence. Because in all the change around me, I am still here. Changed but here. Rem [...]

Forest Talk

Miranda2022-12-31T13:05:34+02:00December 24th, 2022|

I have signed up for another writing workshop by @bethkempton called Winter Writing Sanctuary. It starts on the 28th and it's free. Today we received some warm up exercises and here's the poem that emerged from it. FOREST TALK She puts on her gloves and her purple bonnet She stomps her boots and start humming a sonnet The air is cold her feet start moving fast into the forest where things calm down at last The birds say 'welcome' and the forest greets her with a smell She comes alive in this pl [...]

Word of the year for 2023

Miranda2022-12-31T13:02:31+02:00December 24th, 2022|

Day 24 of #artjournaladvent2022 Every day, I receive a prompt to create a page in my advent art journal. Today's prompt was WORD FOR 2023 I have been choosing a word of the year since 2009. This is the first time that I haven’t decided yet this late in the year. Usually I have my visionboard done and word chosen by November. Pleasure keeps popping up because it is so layered and can mean so many things on so many levels. It also feels so ‘internal’. Delight, fun and joy are all things I crave a [...]

All that I am

Miranda2022-12-31T13:00:35+02:00December 23rd, 2022|

Day 23 of #artjournaladvent2022 Every day, I receive a prompt to create a page in my advent art journal. Today's prompt was ALL THAT I AM I was going to write an artful list of words of all that I am. But then I thought that a picture is worth 1000 words. I'm 53 But also Still 5 🦋What's the picture of all that you are?🦋 [...]

Freedom

Miranda2022-12-31T12:58:53+02:00December 22nd, 2022|

Day 22 of #artjournaladvent2022 Every day, I receive a prompt to create a page in my advent art journal. Today's prompt was FREEDOM Janice Joplin sang “Freedom is just another word for nothing left to loose Nothin’ don’t mean nothin’ honey, if it ain’t free, no no” I am lucky enough to grow up in a country where I am free to live and choose whatever I want. Being free to choose also means having A LOT of choices. And that can be daunting. So sometimes having no choice can be quite freeing. Then [...]

Love letter

Miranda2022-12-31T12:57:34+02:00December 21st, 2022|

I am participating in @kasiaavery CareDecember Art Journaling project. This is day 7 prompt: LOVE LETTER I used to write a lot of letters as a teenager. I had pet pals in Germany but also in the US, South Korea and New Zealand. It felt so exotic and eye opening to receive letters from these girls telling me about their lives that were so different yet also felt so much the same. We would also send each other little gifts from our respective countries and I loved to get introduced to such novelt [...]