The Journey is the Destination (04/18/2021)
This Sunday's journeys: The Journey is the Destination | A Look at the Write Brain | The Dying Art of Conversation | Beach Throws
High Five! It’s Sunday.
Grab a warm drink, turn on the speaker, and settle in, we’re going on a stroll.
🔊 Zone In: Solange’s Solo Star [Full Album]
01 - The Journey is the Destination
Our summer plans are confirmed - we're heading back north comes June, spending the summer on Fire Island (!!). It's literally a dream come true.
While we're still knee-deep in our projects and daily life out here in Texas, our brains have already begun spinning with thoughts, ideas, and a lot of questions over the possibilities and challenges that are going to come up in preparation for and during this next chapter.
There's going to be a lot of external and internal work to be done - which is both exciting and exhausting at the same time.
So much work, for such a short period of time! Fire Island is a seasonal community, so our time there will be very limited: we'll only be out there for three and a half months. And then? We'll see what the universe will send our way next. Suddenly, I find myself wondering (momentarily, for the most part): is it all worth it?
Not having a permanent place of residence is challenging, in many ways. While I've fantasized about being a nomad for many years, the reality of it has presented some unexpected obstacles - practical and mental. On the other hand, I'm not ready to say yet where is it that I'd like to settle down and put roots in next.
Holding this contrast, the journey continues. I'm allowing myself to dream big for this summer with the ideas I have on how I'd like to spend my time out there, what I'd like to create in that environment, and how I'd like to show up there - for myself and for the people around me. And really, when I dust off the mundane tasks of everyday life, those are the questions that I'd like to keep at the front of my mind - so how lucky am I to be able to actively focus on them so regularly these days??
Until next week…
- Disco
02 - A Look at the Write Brain
Nicole Dean on BrainWorld Magazine
In last week’s The Unconscious Shadow workshop, I offered two types of exercises for “shadow work”: Active Imagination and writing prompts. The latter are more familiar, and there’s a good reason for why they’re so common: writing can help in changing our brains - literally: our brains have the ability to create new neural-pathways (this is what’s called neuroplasticity), and writing - especially hand-writing - has been proven to help create these new neuro-pathways. To make sure I’m not sharing some urban legend, I found this article that provides references to specific researches on the topic.
03 - Listen: The Dying Art of Conversation
Celeste Headlee on The Knowledge Project podcast
The Knowledge Project is one of my favorite podcasts, and while it tends to focus on “mental modes”, better problem solving and decision making skills, this episode touches on a skill that while we often consider as intuitive and obvious, there’s actually an art to it, and we can get better at it by understanding it better. I’ve first listened to this episode a couple of years ago, and it still comes to my mind regularly.
04 - Beach Throws on Print All Over Me
Ok, so I’ve been eying these beach blankets for a couple of summers now, and while the price tag is on the higher end, I can finally justify it because I’M ABOUT TO SPEND THE ENTIRE SUMMER BY THE BEACH (sorry, still very excited about that). OCD me, I went through all 28 pages and had close to two-dozen tabs open with my favorites, so many good ones to choose from.
A decision has finally been made: spot me on the beach with the one you see up here 😎
Check out all the designs here
🌳 That's all for today.