There’s a total lunar eclipse. Our souls are about to go to the next level, that’s why some people may have been going through some shit the last few weeks of summer. You’re supposed to grow, and obviously with growth comes obstacles. Everyone’s lives have been changing so quick, in the matter of days. Personally, I feel like a whole different person than who I was in the beginning of June and that was not too long ago. Everyone’s making a big deal out of this eclipse tho because it’s a fresh new start. We’re supposed to learn lessons and move on, so our souls can evolve and grow. I personally have been so emotionally and physically drained, because I’ve been going thru all this growin shit. The eclipse will take that away and give new, positive energy. A new phase in life. So u better learn ur lessons, let go of the old and let in the new or else your ass is prob gonna get kicked if u don’t surrender to the universe’s energy
1.) What do you really want? Sit down quietly and make a list… the juice starts flowing near the end and this is your goal.
2.) How do you want to feel? Visit + assist yourself in this, daily, even if it’s just a consideration
3.) What are you most grateful to have every day? This is your garden – water it, weed it, tend to it always. The garden that gives is the garden that has been taken care of, and as it sometimes goes with gardening… it’s not always easy.
4.) What do you do that fulfills you, even with no money involved? Develope, invest and dive in to this skill. Consider this your living work – how can you expand on this to support you?
5.) What does your cyclical mind have to say about that (that being: making a living doing something you love + working toward what you really want + feeling good)? Notice the dialogue – there are hints hidden in this conversation that speak to what holds you back in some way.
6.) With all this in mind + heart – what can you do today? Small or large, contribute. Tomorrow is here.
tbh the real advice I’d give to anyone is, do shit alone. go to a museum & go at your own pace & leave the instant you’re done. go somewhere you’ve never been and just wander around, duck into & out of places as it pleases you. linger as long as you’d like.
I wanted to make a post about my avid note taking, notebook having tendencies. I have a lot of ideas about notebooks as memory repositories, layers and layers of ideas and thoughts collected into one place. A whole museum of concepts. Places of worship for words. If not just to remember things, I recommend notebooks as a place (and note taking as an action of putting things into that place) as something that lets things come to life and grow outside of your likely, if you’re anything like me, cluttered brain. Sometimes it just becomes a good place to talk to yourself.
(A few images of a pocket moleskine i’ve been working on a specific project in)
I function as a writer and artist, it’s never been ‘either or’ or even ‘both’. It’s one thing that is me, defined as two things for everyone else to understand. So my notes become this frantic amalgamation of scribbles and doodles. I normally start with drawing. A drawing fills the page and I write around it or in it.
The drawings don’t always correspond to the words but sometimes they do.
What do i take notes about? The simple answer is everything I am interested in remembering and recording. Fact or thought or emotion or story idea, name, character, setting, it get’s written down. I think a good way to really think about it is to convince yourself that everything has a worth and while it’s up to you to decide what that worth is, acknowledging that it at the very least has that worth and means something, puts weight into it. I think that’s a good place to grow from. To understand that the smallest idea can become something big and wonderful if you give it the space to grow.
( I had a bad habit of shoving all this chunky ephemera into my notebook until I could no longer write in it, I have since purchased a cork board and pin all that up on there)
I often find that note taking works better for me when I have something to work on, a project to direct that to. Taking notes has become this need, it’s how i process the world, pulling things apart and putting them back together again. I often approach note taking not like a writer but like a magpie snatching every shiny thing it passes by or a tinkerer, trying parts on for size, fingers always twitching to build. There’s always something to record, to detail and work out, to pull to pieces and put those pieces into together with pieces from other places, making connections. It’s a dialogue that doesn’t end. I love working in them because they feel so alive.
I often carry all my sketchbooks/notebooks around with me because I like to flip and see what I was working on. I got a little obsessive about it at one stage before I had to take a step back and reconsider.
A lot of the pages looked like this little lovely thing
I think my advice for note taking and notebook keeping would be
Stop judging the output, stop thinking of how it’s going to look (or do if that’s what works for you). I’ve never gone into a page of my notebooks thinking about how I want it to look but rather the idea i want to get out of my head. Let the idea speak for itself.
Find something you like working in, find utensils you like working with. Comfort and familiarity with a thing causes you to relax and it let’s things grow organically.
Your notebook and note taking aren’t gonna look like mine just like mine aren’t going to look like yours, both are good. Don’t compare your work to others! Compare your work to your old work and remember that nothing can devalue the worth of those ideas and thoughts.
Talk to yourself, go on page long rambles about your favourite recipes, about the movie you loved, record the interesting facts that no one cares about when you tell them, draw a lil bug and call him steve. In a few months, a few years you’re gonna see it and think very fondly about it.
This is ok to reblog and If you have any questions or thoughts feel free to approach me!!
The real glo up is when you stop waiting to turn into some perfect hypothetical version of yourself and consciously enjoy being who you are in the present moment.
love galore 