tending a project
Projects are wild! We did so many in school, anyone remember buying brand new, fresh Project Books from the local news agency? Oh the smell of fresh potential.
If you know me, I LOVE a philosophical lens to look through. It makes sense to me, to make sense of life.
Recently it struck me, take the idea of a project book, zoom out and consider this:
~ YOUR LIFE IS YOUR MAJOR PROJECT ~
YES, your life, which you’re in right now, is your major project.
Take a moment, close your eyes and zoom out.
Can you contemplate this idea?
Can you hold it lightly and dearly, that this life you are living, each day creates a major project. And within that are many many smaller projects.
or taking a fresh perspective from Mary Oliver:
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
Do you feel intentional at all?
What are you creating with your major project?
What’s your mood?
How would you describe what you are creating?
What words do you vibe with? What words do you live by?
Returning to Project Books, I created a digital book, Future Self ~ crafting a splendid new tale. You might have seen mentions of this.
On 1 March this year (my husbands bday), I penned the words ‘future self’ in my journal with a few questions and some thoughts about what my future might look like.
It took me 8 months, from 1 March to 1 November, to think about it, write it, talk myself up and be my own cheerleader. Then I needed to complete it and offer it out.
Now I’ve done that, I guess you might think, how does this look when my raison d'être, or purpose, is The Beauty of Living.
It looked a bit like the photo above this text. It took pockets of time, it took candles, it took background music (Olivia Dean my current fav), it took a lot of copies as I need to SEE what it looks like as I go, then to hard copy.
It looked like many small sweet blessing candles, one each morning, so I could write and create and feel into the mood of beauty, hoping that it worked its way into the book.
Interested? Here’s the link to Future Self ~ crafting a splendid new tale.
The Beauty of Living, is a devotion to living a life infused with intention and ritual. May your days feel beautiful.
This creative project was my oxygen as 2024 wasnt the year I’d imagined. We had crisis after crisis and I think that this book was the one I had to write for me (and you).
It was fuel for my 2024.
I was telling a friend today, its funny how I hadn’t referenced any styles of yoga, no quotes or references to beloved yoga texts that I love. But I know it lives in there, how could it not? After years of practising and teaching yoga, it underpins much of it. But we do ‘contain multitudes’ Walt Whitman so elegantly phrased.
It wasn’t that long ago, it was expected that we had one career, one shot at what ‘it’ was, one industry to work in.. our, entire, life. And if that’s you, great, some people do find one thing and it fits them, but mostly as we grow and change and so do our careers.
So Future Self, it’s a book for the vision holders, for those amongst us that need and want to create a life that feels artful, that has places for magic, for dreaming and future visioning.
Here’s a link to my latest and most exciting project.
