I have decided going to be slow September.

Every year, even though my kids are no longer in school, I find the hustle and bustle of September carries me along with it. I get dragged into the hectic.

This year, I’m refusing to let that happen.

I’m going to work on it in two ways.

I’m going to deliberately incorporate some restful practises into each day, and, I’m going to do more mindful planning so I have a better idea of what I want to do so I can say no to things I don’t want to do.

In fact, I’m starting this practice now by not worrying about the fact that it is September 1 and I don’t have my plan in place yet. I’m going to ease into the plan like I will ease into everything else about this month.

Let’s see how it goes.

For T, may you have peace.

For L, may you have comfort.

I have not been entirely successful with my vacation plans.

Various tasks have been popping onto my radar and leaving them until next week will mean starting them too late.

But I have been doing pretty good with keeping a slower pace AND with keeping those tasks in a metaphorical container so they don’t take up too much time.

And now it’s the long weekend and I will definitely be making this very, very vacation-y.

Pop-up tasks be damned.

I really love the way that paint looks agains a dark background so I was experimenting this morning.

I am happy with what I created but also glad to notice room for improvement.

I need to remember to turn my paper to create an even distribution of some elements of my drawing.

I’m looking forward to sinking into this but I also don’t want to start because you can only read something for the first time once.