June, 2024
We’ve taken vacations, but only over long weekends
We’ve taken vacations, but only in the low season or shoulder season
We’ve expanded our long weekend-week to two week splurges
We’ve digital nomad-ed, which isn’t snowbirding because the work comes with us, sort of
Now, because we don’t want to miss any of the buzz words, we’re in the planning stages for an 89-day slow travel extravaganza (yes, the work is still coming with us, sort of)
It’s not about the weather, because although we will be gone from Chicago during the colder months of November, December, and February, we’re not just going to warm places.
We’re starting in Ireland for the month of November
We’re basing in Marbella, Spain for another month
We probably can’t go to Europe and not stop off in Italy again (it’s not a rut, it’s a groove)
In between? After? Still under development (yes, I hear you, Portugal, Seville, etc. etc!)
Planes, trains, busses, or automobiles? Still under development
Stay tuned.
March, 2024
Once in a great while, when I am meditating and I do that body scan thing . . .
I can’t find all the edges between me and everything else . . .
Like, where do my hands begin and end . . .
And it’s amazing and strange
Try it. I think it might be a moment of truth
(I’m working on my Reels game over on Instagram – if you want to see how this one turned out,
here’s the link)
March, 2024
#The100 day project continues, sometimes with Instagram evidence, sometimes not. My challenge to my self was a 5”x5” piece I work on for no more than 25 minutes each day.
The first couple of weeks I was in California, and the images reflected that.
Now, back in Chicago, I can see the change. I like the freedom this small format and the no-rules rules gives me, so that one is drawn and scraped with watercolor blocks, and the other is collage, but the view from my window is obvious in both pieces.
March, 2024
We went nomading again to Palm Springs for a few weeks, and that seems to now include a ritual photo of one of my favorite reading nooks. This time I was reading Rick Rubin’s The Creative Act.
One of my favorite lines:
“Discipline and freedom seem like opposites. In reality, they are partners.
Discipline is not a lack of freedom, it is a harmonious relationship with time.”
February, 2024
It’s a noisy world, and I think a lot about trying to find the signal in all the noise that matches the rhythm I want for my life. And that’s why I meditate.
