AI is not invited to my Morning Pages

AI is not invited to my Morning Pages

I’ll never ask AI to summarize my morning pages.

Of course I repeat myself – my worries – my dreams

That’s the point.  The repetition is the key to what is unresolved, to what is important.

The path to change – from the pen – to the page – to the heart

Thankful Thursday – Ali Manning

Thankful Thursday – Ali Manning

Why am I grateful this #ThankfulThursday to Ali Manning of @vintagepage designs?

Is it a coincidence that I finally developed the #morningpages habit just as I was introduced to the #handmadebookclub?

Just today I wrote the final pages and added another completed journal to this stack of hand-mades from the past year

Fortunately, I have a stash ready to go. Which one would you choose next?

Thankful Thursday – Meredith Hite-Estevez

Thankful Thursday – Meredith Hite-Estevez

My #thankfulthursday shout-out this month is to Dr. Merideth Hite-Estevez of @artistsforjoy .

After years of trying, something about the free on-line Artists Way group she facilitates finally helped me flip the switch on morning pages and stick to it, to great benefit.  It still astonishes me when I see the filled journals that have piled up.

I’m looking forward to a conversation with her next week to talk about how #enneagramtypes influence creative practice — look for this and other topics on her Artists for Joy Podcast.  I’m an Enneagram 6, and to be honest don’t know much about the types, but when I read the basics and started to consider the questions she is posing, it feels like there is a lot of insight to be had.