In a park on an autumn day a while back I watched butterflies doing the butterfly dance through beams of filtered light among the trees and it was exquisite light dancing. The effect of light dancing upon the wings of butterflies of ordinary beauty made them into something entirely spectacular as their colours changed in…
Category: mindfulness
With PURPOSE.
I have been talking with people as I normally do. The familiar topics of the week are around life purpose and that dreaded question of well….what do you want comes up. It must be the season for life questioning and changing. This imageand the featured image were drawn at the same time. In a same state of contemplation. Both probably approach the same theme but from different perspectives. Responses to the conversations and being around so many people who are open to a new way of being or idea or simply letting go….
Today I will be quiet and listen…..
It would be so easy to think that this simply means don’t speak out loud! I wish it were as straight forward as that.
In the paper!
Designs on inner peace, a story about my coffee and colouring in for grown ups groups that featured in the 17/02/2015 South West News.
Today I will allow kindness to me….
Today I will accept, receive and allow kindness to me. I know there is some redundancy in repeating with subtle word changes the same idea….if you are like me it is necessary! They say charity begins at home and we should love ourselves, so kindness that is for me should begin with me. Well today…
Today I will blow bubbles in the morning….and smile. They always make me smile, bubbles in the morning. Well, any time of the day really but in the morning they are special. When you watch a bubble suspended on the air currents it can seem like magic. Maybe it is there. The swirling of the surface…
I heard my voice
Today is the day after I heard my voice on the radio… For a minute I wasn’t sure it was my voice but it was….It left me feeling vulnerable.
Words in Images
So I have been drawing like I always do. A morning cup of coffee or tea or nothing will give me pause and my pencil and pen being finding a form. People often ask me where I get my ideas from when I begin each image. I don’t always have an answer but this week…
Today I will….
Today I will be a blessing: To bless some is to, in my world view, is to let goodness flow, pay it forward and backward and sideways from what you have and who you are. It is an action.
Going LIVING!
All this happens as the school year begins and I get to consider what it is I want to be doing in 3,6 and 12 months time. This time last year I had no idea I would be writing a blog about the life I am inventing and have no picture of as it is nothing like anything I have done before……. Eating and sleeping under a roof are luxuries in some places in the world but in my life are necessities. In my mind I am balancing sensible with totally not and trying to find a middle ground. Maybe there isn’t one and that is the point of going live! Going living in my Journey to Beautiful.
Stepping to the side and reflecting.
I coloured in today and it was hard…not because the image was complex but because to colour in my own images means I am taken inside to the places I was at when I drew the image. I guess it it probably like that when authors read their memoirs aloud or a musician plays music…
Getting Serious! Coffee and Colouring In for Grown Ups!
Coffee and Colouring In for Grown Ups (TM) is becoming real. Seriously real, not that it hasn’t been before but as long as the line is….it is now my business name and a website domain (almost…soon, being built as you read this). There is something a little bit like looking into the spaces in an…
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