Daily practice within practice

I am committed to do something with image making everyday, at least until the spring equinox. After that, all bets are off until December. That’s okay.

Challenges
My ears are failing. This is creating great anxiety for me. But, I’m finding I am starting to get ‘used’ to it. It brought me to the mind that I am getting sick inside my body. I need to work on keeping this magnificent organism functioning, in spite of life in a toxic environment; psychically and physically, and my bad eating and exercise habits… you know the drill.

In order to reform my physical space, inside and out, I’m working on trying to evolve into a more disciplined and intentional person. I much prefer floating from flower to flower and resting where ever the wind takes me. I still feel this is a good thing, but I’m considering that a little more intention is needed in my life, especially around the food I consume and the way I move my body in the world.

Part of this ‘practice’ will be to work on taking time daily to set my intentions for the day, digest some things that are going on, let the Universe inform me about some of the things I’m trying to process, and generally just trying to calm down a bit before I enter onto the conveyor belt of daily activities.

So today was the first day of a journaling process that allows for Jungian automatic drawing, coupled with poetic reflection and riffing off whatever happens to come up. Carefully entering the ‘stream’ and observing what’s floating past me and what nudges me forward into intention.

Food and exercise will work their way in, but I’m not sure how yet.
I love life, and it excites me every day, the translucent veil that is between my observations, my sense of the Universe, my wonderment, my limited knowledge and perceptions… even through a glass darkly this world is flabbergastingly beautiful and interesting.