🌿 Survival Is Sacred Work
When You're Tired And Have Nothing Else To Give.
Sometimes life runs over you like a freight train, and all you can do is survive.
Making Space For Sadness.
I call this making of space “Singing so the sadness can sleep, under the willow tree.”
It’s a line from a poem I wrote back in 2016. This speaks to me because it evokes tenderness; I have this poor little sadness, and I will take care of it. I will sing to it so it can feel safe and sleep, in a place of quiet, peace, stillness; under my favorite tree.
🌿 Easy, Joyful Journaling for Busy People
The goal here is to create a space in your week to mess about with joy, color, permission, sparkles of creativity, images, words, emotions, things that speak to you.
It doesn’t have to take a lot of time either, if you’re busy; even half an hour will be enough to connect with yourself and make something purely for the joy and fun of it. Even 15 minutes will do.
Turn Your Journaling Into a Practice of Joy
Journaling is an intensely personal thing.
It can be anything you want, anything you need. A tool for self-knowledge, a record of your life, a place to explore your thoughts or write down your dreams.
It can be a sanctuary for the bad times, a refuge when you’re overwhelmed, a map of joy when everything feels wrong.
The Quest For Joy
The world is burning. Everything is breaking.
And so we look for joy, because joy is a subversive thing.
Humans are amazing. We make art with shrapnel and turn our pain into song, into poetry. We play piano while waiting for the bombs. We tell jokes and plant gardens and write stories and gather around the table or the fire to celebrate anything we can. We look for joy alone and together, and often find it in that togetherness, in sharing, in community.
Joy is as universal as breathing.