The Season of Turning Inward
This weeks journal is about settling into a comfy chair on a cool, damp day with your journal and perhaps a good book. See the book pick to do just that.
JOURNAL PROMPTS & POSTS
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Coming Home to October
What does Autumn Mean to You?
Perhaps the changing of the seasons is one of nature's oldest invitations to notice our own lives.
Journaling Prompt: Breathe out and let the next season find you.
For even a summer that has overstayed its welcome deserves a gentle farewell. And sometimes, the most beautiful endings are the ones we are not quite ready to let go of.
Journaling Prompt — Come Back to Wonder
Come back to wonder.
Come back to desire—not the desire for more, but the desire to be fully here.... taste the morning, notice the light, laugh without needing a reason, walk somewhere simply because you want to see what is there, look up again, because the stars have not disappeared, you have simply been looking elsewhere.
Come back to desire—not the desire for more, but the desire to be fully here.... taste the morning, notice the light, laugh without needing a reason, walk somewhere simply because you want to see what is there, look up again, because the stars have not disappeared, you have simply been looking elsewhere.
Journaling Prompt: The Last Picnic of Summer
Journaling Prompt: What late-summer ritual do you want to carry with you into autumn (read more)
The Places We Are Drawn To - Where Is Your Spirit Drawn?
Travel is, in part, a way of meeting ourselves. There are cities we visit because we have always dreamed of seeing them, and then there are cities that seem to call to us before we can quite explain why.
HARBOR FARMERS MARKET
Through these markets, vineyards, and coastal docks, I find new rhythms of nourishment and I'm slowly learning to let these places shape my table, too.
The Things We Choose to Remember
I love the idea of a journal as a living record. Sometimes, when we look back, these fragments tell us something we could not have understood at the time. They show us who we were becoming.
The Art of Lingering
A journal gives us somewhere to place the things we might otherwise lose.
The Art of Noticing
Sometimes we make things simply because the making itself brings us home to ourselves.
Moments that Inspire
These are the moments that restore me. They are also the moments that inspire what I make.
THE MEANING OF ORDINARY DAYS
Beneath the surface of everyday life lies a quiet holiness, waiting to be discovered by those who pause long enough to notice.
Where the Wild Raspberries Grow
As children, we believe we are collecting berries, shells, feathers, or flowers. Only years later do we understand that we were gathering something far less fragile.
How a Place Can Inspire You to Write: Lessons from The Yearling
"Every landscape has a story. The question is whether we are willing to stay still long enough to hear it."
Where Do You Begin? Writing the Story Only You Can Tell.
Crafting a Memoir
At its heart, a memoir is an act of remembering. The word itself comes from the French mémoire, meaning memory, but memoir is not simply recollection. It is the shaping of memory into meaning.
The Quiet Tension Between Who We Are and Who We Imagine Ourselves Becoming
Listening for What Has Not Yet Spoken
What has been quietly asking for my attention lately?
How to Create a Writers Journal
JOURNALING PROMPTS
Essays on literature, place, memory, beauty, and the art of paying attention.