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Full Corn Moon Vision Board of Connection
A little late to the game this Full Moon, but better late than never, I suppose.
In addition to Jamie Ridler’s Full Moon Dreamboards, I am currently participating in Karen Walrond’s new course, Chookooloonks Path Finder. Coincidentally with an extra splash of synchronicity, this week’s project was to create a vision board incorporating our word for the year. At the start of the year, I signed up for Ali Edwards’ One Little Word, and had claimed SPROUT as my word for the year . To me this word speaks of setting the intention of allowing seeds that I have been planting in my personal and professional life in recent years – to begin to sprout – to nurture them to life.
To be honest, I have often lost sight of this throughout the year, but the creative projects and inspiration I find through courageous ladies like Jamie Ridler, Brene Brown, Karen Walrond, Kelly Rae Roberts, and Ali Edwards, reminds me to take time to get in touch with the things I value personally – those things that are truly sacred to me (and maybe not the people around me). I am truly grateful for this in times where I feel lost, unsure of direction, unfocused, and trapped trying to please the people I love (and even perfect strangers). 
Full Moon Dreamboard: The Full Buck Moon
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This is my second Full Moon Dreamboard and I’m really loving the process/practice. Today started off with some pretty thick resistance – but I persisted and am pretty pleased with the result. I find it re-enforcing to put my visions / plans / ideas onto paper using images that I find. Go Full Buck Moon!
This month I will begin to enjoy some of the fruits and vegetables we’ve been planting over the last few months. Fresh, ripe cherries from the old cherry tree, raspberries off the new vine, and lots of greens, herbs, and tomatoes to savor and enjoy. I want to bask under our fun, solar lanterns in the blooming garden on warm nights and cherish every ounce of sunshine that makes it way down through the skies during the long Summer days. I’m looking forward to a few concerts by some of my favorite female artists at a local winery and zoo.
I want to harness the power of the Full Buck Moon to get my freelance business up and running strong, to secure a part-time job in a more healthy environment, and to let go of and push through those slimy gremlins that keep me from fully enjoying every moment and living in line with my true self and dreams.
If you have a moment, I’d love to hear from you. What do you see? Thank you for visiting!
Full Strawberry Moon Dreamboard
This is my first Full Moon Dreamboard. Each month for the past few months I’ve told myself I would do one – only to be distracted by something else … and then the full moon was gone!
Not this time!
I have to tell you it felt so good after I was done with the Dreamboard. I used to love doing things like this in high school and college. I love getting lost in images and text that subconsciously speak to me.
For this dreamboard, I started with a focus on strawberries, fruit, sunshine … and then became attracted to images that reflect an undercurrent currently going on for me related to speaking up, nurturing self-care, and being “hungry” enough to go through with some changes I have been brewing on the professional front.
What do you see? Any thoughts?
Quotable Tuesday: Perserverance
“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou
“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.” – Marie Curie
“No-one gets an iron-clad guarantee of success. Certainly, factors like opportunity, luck and timing are important. But the backbone of success is usually found in old-fashioned, basic concepts like hard work, determination, good planning and perseverance.” – Mia Hamm
Quotable Tuesday: Nurturing Creativity
“Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs.” – John F. Kennedy
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” – Scott Adams
“Creativity – like human life itself – begins in darkness.” – Julia Cameron
Farewell, Geraldine
“I went from being a kid who lost her father [at age 8] and who lived in the South Bronx to almost going in to live in the White House … that just tells you what this country is all about.”
- Geraldine Ferraro
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