Start here: Celebrate life's wild beauty
Life expressing its authentic and fragile self
Wild Beauty hides in crashing waves,
smiling faces,
poetic phrases …
everywhere … if you’re there to see and feel it.
One day I woke up with the strange urge to ghostwrite its memoir.
After several years of practicing gratitude and writing two gratitude journals, the mystery of what’s next whispered “wild beauty.” So, as much as possible, that’s where I plan to be … there to see it and bring back treasures to share. In marketing parlance, this could be called a “rebranding” exercise.
Perhaps, it’s the snake in me
However, it feels more shedding a skin. A snake’s skin does not grow, so periodically it sloughs off the old skin so it can continue growing. Snakes do this frequently, whenever necessary; it also removes parasites that may have been picked up along the way. I love the idea that this transformation into Wild Beauty is simply giving myself room to expand and, also, to get rid of unwanted baggage.
At the beginning of 2024, I began sharing quotes everyday in Notes. In February, I started turning them into flipbooks. Every month now, the new flipbook is sent to paid subscribers and the thoughts for the days are posted to Notes. Past flipbooks are made available to all subscribers a month later … here are the ones available to date:
2024 Flipbooks
July: Summer Readwise: 31 Thoughts from 31 Books
June: 30 Days of Klee
May: Wild Beauty, based on the book Beauty and the Beast, California Wildflowers and Climate Change
April: Back to Wonder Book Lines
March: March Memes Beckon
February: Daily Thoughts from Hermann Hesse
Special Interest Flipbooks
I want to be a mockingbird (poem)
The Hermitage Santa Barbara … sometimes life offers you a chance to walk through the mind of a genius … take it
Solstice 2023 … thoughts and images
Felicity: the center of the world
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Transformation! Bring it on! Love that you've done your gratitude journals for so long, Joyce.
Funny you should mention this today, Joyce. When I saw the article by Sahil Bloom, 9 Hidden Signs of Personal Growth, I thought of you and everyone like me who has experienced these "same me in a new skin" moments. The one that smacked me between the eyes was number 9: "You start cringing at yourself from six months ago." The cringe you feel when you look at your old output, mindset, behaviors and actions is an indicator. It means you've learned, changed, and grown.