First of all: Happy Easter to all of you!
Here’s another week in pictures for Project 361 (see Jamie’s post). To see the title, simply hover over the image.
Needless to say maybe, but my blog has a new look. It has had a new facefor a few days already, but since I always need a few days to decide if I really like it, I didn’t mention it before. But as it turns out, I’m very happy with it. So here it is, the new and improved Secret Wish Jar! Feel free to tell me what you think of it, whether you like it or not (but of course I hope you’ll like it just as much as I do!).
A bit later than planned, but here are my pics for week 10 of Project 361. You know the drill: move over the images to see the title.
I’m feeling restless. Maybe it’s because spring seems to be coming, but then withdraws again, leaving everything bleak and grey. I’m ready for spring, I’m waiting to welcome the new blossoms and sprouts, the fresh green leaves and the awakening of nature. But nature doesn’t want to wake up yet, or so it seems.
A few weeks ago I started a meditation course. It helps me still my mind and really look within, to truly connect with myself. The restless feeling I’m experiencing is a paradox to the tranquility I experience when meditating. I’m not sure what it is, where it comes from or what I should do with it. It’s strange, but now that I reserve time for myself everyday to meditate, I feel like I have less time for myself than when I didn’t. I don’t have time to knit, blog, write, take photo’s or do anything to express myself creatively at the moment. I know this isn’t true, because meditation course is only 2 nights a week, so there’s 5 nights left to do whatever I want. I feel like a headless chicken running around and bumping into walls. I start one thing, but before I finish it, I abandon it for something else, which in turn I don’t finish either. I have so many ideas of how I want things to look, to be or to feel, but as soon as I start working on them, I change my mind at least a hundred times.
Last Friday I was promoted, totally unexpected. This week already I will make a start in my new position and I’m very excited about it. Things are changing and shifting, I can feel it. Maybe that’s where the restless feeling is coming from. I try not to let it bother me and view it as something positive. After all, spring is coming any time now and who knows what it will bring…
PS. In honour of spring, I’ve decided to give my blog a new face as well. I haven’t found the right look yet, so chances are you’ll see a few different ones during the next weeks…
My past week in pictures for Project 361. Move over the images to see the title..
.jpg "First evening of my meditation course")
Project 361 is taking a daily picture to catch my life in images instead of words. Move your mouse over the photo to know what it is about.
My angel card at the moment is ‘freedom’.
The past few days I’ve been reflecting a lot on what freedom means to me. If you ask me do I feel I am free, I’d say ‘yes’ without even giving it a second thought. Of course I am free. I live in a free country where human rights are respected and where women are more or less equal to men. I am free to do, think and say what I like and I don’t have to live in fear. All of this definitely qualifies as freedom. But how do I feel about freedom on a deeper, more personal level? What does being free mean to me?
To me, freedom is (among other things):
Am I free? Do I feel free? In general, most of the time, yes, I do feel free and I do believe that I am free. Not completely free, I still have a lot of things to work on, but I’m definitely on the right path.
What does freedom mean to you? And do you feel free?
At the beginning of January I reflected on what my theme for this year would be:
"[...] my word for this year is creativity: (re)discovering, developing, embracing, stimulating and sharing my creativity."
In order to do this, I have to know and understand what creativity means to me, why it is important to me and how I would like to express it. Instead of writing it all down, I decided to make a vision card instead. For me, creativity is:
.jpg)
Project 361 ~ my week from 16-22 February 2008 in images. Move your cursor over the picture to read the title.
Yay! Today I made my first ever collage (as a grown up, that is, I know I made them as a child)! After seeing so many beautiful and inspiring collages at the blogs of Jamie, Shannon and Melba among others I really wanted to try this form of expression. So I gathered some magazines, paper and glue and started. I’d planned to take a picture during the process of collaging, but I got so caught up in it that I totally forgot, only remembering after I finished! I guess that says it all, doesn’t it? I just loved doing this!
On most days I’m quite happy with the way I look. Sure, I’m no supermodel, but in general I don’t think I have a lot of reason to complain or be unhappy about my appearance. On some days however, I wish I could cover all mirrors and avoid having to look at myself at all. I expect it’s something most women, if not all, experience every once in a while. On those days this collage is to remind me that I am not, in fact, as ugly as I think I am, but beautiful and gorgeous as always, even when I can’t see it at that particular moment.
