art journal progress

One of my Life List goals is to go back to my art journalling - basically it meant writing and making collage art in my journal almost every day. I used to do it when I was still going to school but when I finished college and found a job, most of my creative activities were slowly shelved.

I have managed to get back slowly into writing journals (by this I mean pen and paper) but it was only yesterday that I stumbled into the perfect groove of turning it into an important part of my day. The key idea was putting everything together. I realized that I have scattered too many pieces of my selves across different files (on paper and online and in computer files) and it has become very difficult for me to trace myself. So I decided to gather all these pieces of me and pour them all in a single journal -- all thoughts, morning pages, ideas, random notes, quotations, and even lists. I realized that in my effort to "organize", I overdid it and oversplit my life into too many categories thereby rendering the whole quite incomprehensible and without pattern nor easily discernible meaning.

So when I sat down to pull my selves back together, the themes in my mind and my heart were cohesion, wholeness, integration, unity, harmony. As I pooled many bits of myself together I started to feel energy pooling as well. Energy that I can use to fuel more creativity.

And as I write this I also realize that this is yet another part of my distillation process -- of keeping only what is essential in my life and trimming away all that do not contribute to my learning and growth.

Have a fruitful weekend!

my life list

I have been greatly inspired by the life lists of Carolyn, sfgirlbybay and Mighty Girl. Here I wrote my own, with one little item already crossed out (Yay!).

 
Some are big, some are small. Some are quite easy, a few will probably require finding a genie in a bottle or maybe a fairy godmother. Looking through my list after writing them, I began to see patterns that made me smile as I realized where I am heading and who and what I am growing into. I certainly never imagined I would ever find myself along this particular path. Not even five years ago.

Maybe I will change some items as I go along, or maybe even add to the list and make it 150 instead of 100. One thing for sure, there is still so much to do with this life, so much to look forward to, so much to learn. Late bloomer I may be, but I will blooming long after many have decided to call it a day, or a life.

I would love to read your life lists. Let me know if you have one. :)