This year being my Indie year, I’ve given myself creative licence to write what I want to write, including poetry. I’ve also been making books, collaging, and keeping a journal. It’s soul food, utterly absorbing, it induces a kind of flow that’s easier on the mind then the flow of pure writing – perhaps more like improvised music..
Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (considered to be the founder of the Flow concept)
Here are some pictures from a journal I’m keeping of my visits to a garden, inc notes, poems, photos and collage – some of the paper I’ve used was made by my daughter Katie.
Soon I will be further south by the sea in Suffolk – I’m hoping the weather will last!
Hi Avril. This is a beautiful page of excerpts from your notebook – it will be something to treasure in the years ahead.
Enjoy your holiday in Suffolk. Love Eileen.
Thanks Eileen – I hope it will be a treasure – it does feel abit like that!
A x
What a delight and what a brilliant idea.
Love the lichen. Will send you a photo of fungi from Botanic Gardens which you may also like.
Happy Hols
GW
Thanks Gillian – if its amazing greeny blue fungi like giant seashells then I think I’ve got photo but would love to see yours – the daffodil photo was beautiful
Ax
Giving oneself creative licence is a firework idea. This is a very beautiful and inspiring post. Enjoy your week by the sea wx
Will do my best – thank you Wendy. And thank you for the Anne Morrow Lindberg ‘Gift From The Sea’ 1955 – which looks fascinating and smells just like a book should!
Love the journal, Avril. It looks so beautiful. Making notebooks sounds like fun and at the end of it there is a unique and beautiful book to write all of those precious poems and ideas.
You’re right geri it is fun – at least playful – it reminds me of those projects you did when you were a child in scrap books – I always loved doing those
A x
Beautiful work. You are a true artist! x