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Month: August 2018

a new chapter…

A new space. I’m trying it out. ♥

I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.

~~ Irvine Welsh

Author GingerPosted on August 22, 2018August 27, 2018Categories creativity, life, writingTags creativity, life, writing

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Hi, I’m Ginger – welcome! I blog about creativity, joy, self care, writing, living with anxiety, and this journey of life in general. Take a look around and read what calls to you. (There are some freebie printables too!)

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Zonked out for naptime today. . #catsofinstagram #calico #sleepyhead #ourcutechloe

Right now, front porch sitting on this heat-advisory day before the heat goes higher... #myviewrightnow #frontporchsittin #sky #frontporchlife #thisismytoday

Where she is right now... #spoiledkitty #catsofinstagram #calicocat #sweetgirl #comfy #ourcutechloe

Watercolor play with my nondominant hand. These were days 6-11 and I continued for several days after that - originally intending to do another round of #100daysofwatercolorplaying but this time with my nondominant hand, as part of neural rewiring. But as time went on, I realized this was interfering with #creativityjoy when it came to my #watercolorplay even though most days I was also doing a second watercolor with my right (dominant) hand just for fun and play. So over the weekend I decided to course-correct... because the whole reason I play with paint is for the joy, and the relaxation and calm. JOY is my main why for playing with paint - and I need for painting (whether watercolors, or acrylic on canvas, or whatever) to remain joy-filled for me. Back in 2013, I made a promise to myself that I wouldn't let anything rob me of the joy when it came to painting, because painting gives me something special and needed that's different from anything else - and that if anything did take away my painting joy (whether a class or program, or a "should" in my own mind) I would stop or change that thing (even if it meant dropping out of something, because this is just *that* important) to shift back into JOY mode. . I'm doing some writing with my nondominant hand, and also some drawing and coloring. I'll stick to those activities for my left-handed practice, along with doing things like holding my toothbrush in my left hand. But I'm going to stick with my right hand for painting unless I have a time here or there when I get the urge to play with paint using my left hand. . I still want to do another round of #100daysofwatercolorplaying and so I'm planning to start again, but this time keeping it separate from my left-handed practice. I don't want painting to feel like work, or a chore, or a should. Not for me. This is play. This is calming and meditative and relaxing and fun. This is JOY. So I'm doing what I need to do to protect that for myself. I'm changing my personal goal and I'm course correcting. . #beingtruetomyself #ampainting #watercolors #paintplay #brainretraining #brainrewiring #neuralretraining #nondominanthand #coursecorrection #doingitforthejoy

It's #internationalcatday so I couldn't resist showing how the girl is spending it. She's awake from her afternoon nap but not yet up off her pile of pillows. . #catsofinstagram #ourcutechloe #calico #spoiledbutsweet

This morning... coffee, cleaning, painting, writing. After a huge ramp-up in symptoms that made me feel worse than I've felt in quite a while - which is saying something, considering the journey of this #longslowmedtaper - I'm grateful they've eased enough at the moment for me to have a more normal-feeling start to my day. . #coffeetime #thisismytoday #grateful #ampainting #amwriting #mug #littlethingsmakemesmile

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