5 things for the weekend 22.32
halloween decor, fix your book club, purge your closet, pencils are amazing
I’ve struggled for years to start and maintain a daily journaling habit. it just never stuck. I think the problem was that I was trying to recreate what other people were doing. Over the last few months though, I’ve pulled together a system that works for me. The main impetus was starting to do a daily tarot draw after taking Susannah Conway’s 78 Mirrors Class. I love her approach to Tarot: it’s all about reflection and mindfulness, nothing to do with predicting the future. The cards are a way of thinking about things that come up for us daily. I also do a daily affirmation. I have a hard time getting going in the morning, and writing an affirmation helps me to fake it till I make it. Sometimes that’s all I do, but some days I also do some free long form journaling to get thoughts out. It’s become the thing that really grounds me first thing in the morning, and gets me off on the right foot.
Do you have a regular journaling practice?
5 Things
1. Use wood shapes and cut offs to make a variety of Halloween decorations for your home and garden.
2. In his Nobel Prize speech Ernest Hemingway advised writers (and creatives) to work alone. As an introvert, this appeals to me, and I currently do work all alone in my attic office. Do you agree? Find his full speech here.
3. I always love reading Austin Kleon’s take on things creative. Here’s his treatise on pencils. He claims they can be anything.
4. The seasons are changing, which is a signal to me to declutter my closet. I do this twice a year, in Spring and again in Fall. Here are 11 things you should purge.
5. Are your book club members not reading the book, so your meeting becomes more of a social gathering? Some tips on how to fix that.
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On Fridays I play along with the Friday Five Challenge on Instagram.
“One should never blame gods, he believed, for the use to which human beings put them.”
― Marie-Elena John, Unburnable
The daily journaling struggle is real. I was doing really well with my daily meditation and tarot draw but my August vacation threw me off and I am struggling to get back to it. I also want to start adding some sort of daily journaling so like the idea of at least doing an affirmation. :)