I love the morning ritual, and I really need to find one that works for me amidst work, travel, and family. Need to consider what is the first small step I can take, but that could be as simple as completing my morning pages before noon.
(1) Synchronicity, there is a small bit of synchronicity in your post in that I am currently reading "How to tell a story" by the Moth which is all about "the power of being witnessed and witnessing other" through storytelling.
(2) I only managed to complete pages 5 times this week as work was particularly time consuming at the start of this week.
(3) For my artist date, I did nothing. Literally! Inspired by last week's post, I chose to sit on my front porch with no phone, no camera, no book, no pen or paper. Just me. Spent 20 minutes trying to immerse myself in the surroundings. Feeling the sun on my legs and the wind across my face. Hearing the wind in the trees, the birds singing (did not use Merlin to identify as that would defeat the purpose), and the sounds of suburbia. Observing the blossoms floating in the wind as they cascaded off the tree, noticing the shape of the trees and then many many shades of green around. It felt rewarding and revealing as I saw things around me that I had never paid attention to, but at the same time is what challenging. I was tired and at times fought to keep my eyes open.
(4) Resistance for me is almost always in the form of too little time and too much to do which made the artist date particularly rewarding and challenging.
Tom! Completing the pages before noon is no small thing. And I love that artist's date. I'm inspired to try that. For real.
I love The Moth. I went to a live competition once. More on that later. But one of the things I love about this space is how being witnessed and witnessing each other and our stories is endlessly powerful and fascinating and supportive and kind. So grateful to have this community.
Great minds think alike in terms of the learning to rest aspect or learning to do nothing or learn to unplug definitely it’s definitely a useful modern skill
I love this soul much! Thank you for sharing your practice. Looking forward to experiencing your zoom offerings! Please add me to your Understory waitlist!
I bought the book that you mentioned last week and all week I have felt really inspired by the post you made last week and it’s just opened up the memory of the beauty and the peace of the night time for me. It hasn’t arrived yet, and I haven’t read it, but that will probably be my Artist date this week or next, reading that book! The Darkness Manifesto. Can’t wait to dig in.
I rested deeply this week. Doing some gentle work on healing past pain and integrating wisdom, teaching my younger self-states to have compassion on each other. Learning that I froze; how to unfreeze in the morning sun, in the ink drying on the journal page, and that it’s okay to hide in my home to feel safe for a day, there’s no harm in it. Did MPs 50% this week. Artists Date: bought some perfume- one I wanted to wear for my wedding in 1995 that I couldn’t afford then, another that reminds me of a favorite opera singer, and two others that bring happy memories to mind from different eras of my life.
I also redecorated my bathroom with a variety of shades of green to imitate what I see in my environment in my neighborhood and they’re not the same color anywhere- just the richness of nuance.
Prada makes my favorite line of perfumes especially their basic line which is Amber based, although their Candy is way too sweet for me! I like the basic LaCoste but their women’s variations lean too sweet for me too. I have a Pacifica (MUCH more affordable!) Lilac that reminds me of picking lilacs on our property with my mom when I was a babe in arms- it’s such a safe gentle healing uplifting natural smell. I’m so curious about other people‘s opinions on their favorite smells if anybody reads this and wants to share I would love to hear about the smells that you like- not just perfume, but smells that really bring richness and meaning to your life or healing or comfort or just fun or whatever.
Has anyone read the novel perfume about the guy who was born on the street with no sense of smell and he goes mad and it’s kind of a horror story but it’s really interesting and it’s incredibly well written literature so I recommend it. I think Kurt Cobain (with Nirvana) wrote a song based on that novel Called Scentless Apprentice.
It makes you think about smell because smell is so - we’re so unconscious of it and yet smell can be such a huge trigger in both a positive way and a negative way for eliciting certain moods and atmospheres and bringing consciousness to mind of different things . I think we’re mostly unconscious of the world of smell, but if we could see like an overlay in our minds of all the smells that are around us at any given time I think it would look probably like our visual field looks a cacophony of influences that are invisible to us.
I was referring to Luciano Pavarotti here- at some point he put his name to a perfume called Donna. Although when you purchase old “vintage” perfumes the chemical balance may have changed or various ingredients age differently so I’m not sure it will smell the way it was intended to! Haha, maybe I bought a keepsake. Still fun! I got some amber resin too, a scent I associate with unconditional love, and you can find it for like $10 online, but I’m not sure that it’s wearable so I just keep the cube of resin next to me where I work and it smells lovely and it’s a very mellow beautiful smell that enhances my experience of deep thinking where I work.
Thanks for sharing your morning ritual. I'm inspired to codify mine. Please waitlist me for Understory!
You’re in! Thank you, Janice.
Yay!
I love the morning ritual, and I really need to find one that works for me amidst work, travel, and family. Need to consider what is the first small step I can take, but that could be as simple as completing my morning pages before noon.
(1) Synchronicity, there is a small bit of synchronicity in your post in that I am currently reading "How to tell a story" by the Moth which is all about "the power of being witnessed and witnessing other" through storytelling.
(2) I only managed to complete pages 5 times this week as work was particularly time consuming at the start of this week.
(3) For my artist date, I did nothing. Literally! Inspired by last week's post, I chose to sit on my front porch with no phone, no camera, no book, no pen or paper. Just me. Spent 20 minutes trying to immerse myself in the surroundings. Feeling the sun on my legs and the wind across my face. Hearing the wind in the trees, the birds singing (did not use Merlin to identify as that would defeat the purpose), and the sounds of suburbia. Observing the blossoms floating in the wind as they cascaded off the tree, noticing the shape of the trees and then many many shades of green around. It felt rewarding and revealing as I saw things around me that I had never paid attention to, but at the same time is what challenging. I was tired and at times fought to keep my eyes open.
(4) Resistance for me is almost always in the form of too little time and too much to do which made the artist date particularly rewarding and challenging.
(5) No tasks
(6) And yes to the understory!!!!
Tom! Completing the pages before noon is no small thing. And I love that artist's date. I'm inspired to try that. For real.
I love The Moth. I went to a live competition once. More on that later. But one of the things I love about this space is how being witnessed and witnessing each other and our stories is endlessly powerful and fascinating and supportive and kind. So grateful to have this community.
Great minds think alike in terms of the learning to rest aspect or learning to do nothing or learn to unplug definitely it’s definitely a useful modern skill
I love this soul much! Thank you for sharing your practice. Looking forward to experiencing your zoom offerings! Please add me to your Understory waitlist!
Yay!
💚💚💚 appreciate you, Florencia!!!
The Understory. I admire your work and would like to tread deeper.
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Yay!
so good...
thank you, Janisse! always inspired by you.
I bought the book that you mentioned last week and all week I have felt really inspired by the post you made last week and it’s just opened up the memory of the beauty and the peace of the night time for me. It hasn’t arrived yet, and I haven’t read it, but that will probably be my Artist date this week or next, reading that book! The Darkness Manifesto. Can’t wait to dig in.
I love this, Keely. Let me know what you think!
I rested deeply this week. Doing some gentle work on healing past pain and integrating wisdom, teaching my younger self-states to have compassion on each other. Learning that I froze; how to unfreeze in the morning sun, in the ink drying on the journal page, and that it’s okay to hide in my home to feel safe for a day, there’s no harm in it. Did MPs 50% this week. Artists Date: bought some perfume- one I wanted to wear for my wedding in 1995 that I couldn’t afford then, another that reminds me of a favorite opera singer, and two others that bring happy memories to mind from different eras of my life.
I also redecorated my bathroom with a variety of shades of green to imitate what I see in my environment in my neighborhood and they’re not the same color anywhere- just the richness of nuance.
Who is your favorite opera singer???
Prada makes my favorite line of perfumes especially their basic line which is Amber based, although their Candy is way too sweet for me! I like the basic LaCoste but their women’s variations lean too sweet for me too. I have a Pacifica (MUCH more affordable!) Lilac that reminds me of picking lilacs on our property with my mom when I was a babe in arms- it’s such a safe gentle healing uplifting natural smell. I’m so curious about other people‘s opinions on their favorite smells if anybody reads this and wants to share I would love to hear about the smells that you like- not just perfume, but smells that really bring richness and meaning to your life or healing or comfort or just fun or whatever.
Has anyone read the novel perfume about the guy who was born on the street with no sense of smell and he goes mad and it’s kind of a horror story but it’s really interesting and it’s incredibly well written literature so I recommend it. I think Kurt Cobain (with Nirvana) wrote a song based on that novel Called Scentless Apprentice.
It makes you think about smell because smell is so - we’re so unconscious of it and yet smell can be such a huge trigger in both a positive way and a negative way for eliciting certain moods and atmospheres and bringing consciousness to mind of different things . I think we’re mostly unconscious of the world of smell, but if we could see like an overlay in our minds of all the smells that are around us at any given time I think it would look probably like our visual field looks a cacophony of influences that are invisible to us.
I was referring to Luciano Pavarotti here- at some point he put his name to a perfume called Donna. Although when you purchase old “vintage” perfumes the chemical balance may have changed or various ingredients age differently so I’m not sure it will smell the way it was intended to! Haha, maybe I bought a keepsake. Still fun! I got some amber resin too, a scent I associate with unconditional love, and you can find it for like $10 online, but I’m not sure that it’s wearable so I just keep the cube of resin next to me where I work and it smells lovely and it’s a very mellow beautiful smell that enhances my experience of deep thinking where I work.