It's only been a week...but I missed you 😊. Where I am, it got suddenly chilly this week. I know Spring is around here somewhere, but she is hiding her face right now.
The self-imposed 30-day bucket list challenge I gave to myself to illustrate a children's book...it's done! I completed it. I sent the book to the printer. The books are going to come to me some time in the first week of April, and then I'll send them on to their new homes 😊.
I thought that posting daily on FB and IG during this brief interlude (in contrast to sending you a daily email) would be similar experience, but like...it kind of isn't?
I feel a lot more focused towards you when I write directly like this. It feels cozier.
A week off was a long enough time for me to pause and ask myself...what is it that I really want, by doing this newsletter?
And the answer that surfaced: I want to discover how I might best be present for & visible to others who might need my unique support in the world.
Writing every day to those folks I want to be present and visible for focuses that like none other!
So, I want to re-set my intention for this list:
I'm going to write you a lot of emails. Probably not every day, but almost every day.
I'm going to get wildly creative with it...experiment with all kinds of formats including poetry and informal drawings...(I've been doing a lot of Metta in combination with drawing lately, and have loved it, and I kinda want to show you what it's all about.)
I will take days or weeks off at certain times. I've been playing with the idea of approaching this newsletter like a design sprint: two weeks of every-day cadence, one week to breathe. I do not have it completely decided yet.
When I look at this new intention, it feels super joy-filled to me. It feels like a "Hell Yes" to me, which is where I want to be creatively, and when I feel "Hell Yes" I know that the material you will get is automatically better.
My promise to you: my emails will always be sent with the intention of offering you something helpful…solidarity, advice, laughter, tools, whatever.
I totally get this is not going to be an experience for everyone. It is okay if you want to jump out of this experience whenever you want.
I think that's everything. I have so enjoyed you being here! Thank you truly so much. Talk to you...tomorrow!
XOXO,
Cathy