So the other day I started something new, to coax creativity out of me.  I made dotty art, wrote about that on the blog last week or so.  And I loved it.  So much that I bought a larger canvas and some new markers with a dot and a brush tip.  I started. Lay out the canvas on a tray and made dots. Lots and lots of them. ...

Took this picture on our way home on Thursday.  Hope it makes you smile as much as me! 

I love Uni Posca pens to doodle and play with, but boy oh boy, they are expensive now.  So when I saw a set of dupes at our local discount store, I got them.  And I have to say I’m sort of impressed. Some of them are leaky as you can see in the dotty plaything I share below.  But it’s such a joy. I love making dotty...

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. ~ Franz Kafka

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. ~ Franz Kafka

Wen considered the nature of time and understood that the universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew. Therefore, he understood, there is in truth no past, only a memory of the past. Blink your eyes, and the world you see next did not exist when you closed them. Therefore, he said, the only appropriate state of the...

Happiness is based on what is happening AROUND us. Joy is based on what is happening WITHIN us. ~ Margaret Minnicks

Warning: this post contains gleeful joy about fountain pens A new pen arrived today! It’s one I’ve been looking forward to for weeks, as it was stuck in the post somewhere. It’s a Pilot Kaküno EF, with a bright purple cap (not really clear in this picture, but in the one a bit further below, it is). I don’t have a new...

Dear one, Do you remember when you were just a little bean? It was when you still believed in me. Your little self believed in magic, the power of hugs and in the power of limitless giggles. Then you started to grow up, and the belief in magic started to fade as the pain of life started to stack up inside of you. I can...

It's so funny how life works. I was working on clearing out my Bear app. It was starting to fill up with notes again and I knew that I could ditch a lot of them. Half-baked ideas can go into my ideas file, already posted things can go to the trash etc. I found a file, an idea for a guided journal to finding creative joy...

In a week's time I will be in Berlin to see Radiohead play live, for the first time since Glastonbury 2017. I am so very excited for this, and also so very nervous. It's so silly, I always get nervous for big life things like this, but only until I arrive, then I'm good. We're going to drive there, 7 hours in total, but...

I’ve just finished another Monday session at the PT, another one focusing on balance and core exercises, training my muscles to make me a functioning bipedal creature (instead of one losing balance stepping over a doorjamb, or doing mountain 3).  The exercises are tough, and I’ve recognised a pattern after just two...

Every day, or most of them, I write a list of three things I'm grateful for in my little notebook. It's such a healing practice, and it focuses you on the smaller things, as you run out of the big things so fast. Writing what I'm grateful for always refocuses me on what brings me joy, and it always makes me smile. And...

Yesterday evening I suddenly decided to add my freebies as a page on this blog. I copied the text from my website, finagled it a bit to fit with my blog, and hit publish.  I love to have my freebies here, and I love that I saw my own journal again.  You see, I noticed the first inklings of winter depression seep into me...

(wrote this post a couple of weeks ago and then let it linger in Bear. Time to let it out in the open!)There's a significant change in how I live my life these days, and I’m going to try to put it into words.  An example of this: yesterday I didn’t do anything my previous self would deem useful. I was in a bit of pain...