Do you like to journal...whether it be written-only, or art journaling?  I sure do.  I love to write in my journal, even though I haven't found the time lately.  I've filled so many journals over the years that I couldn't begin to count them.  There are boxes of them, all filled up, off getting dusty somewhere. Some were store bought with elaborate covers, some came to me as delicious gifts from people I love, some have the prettiest of bookmarks attached, some I even created myself, but they're all FULL!  Full of my hopes, my dreams, my ramblings, and my daring, brave goals.
     Lately, life has been sooo biz-y with valid, important things that I've ignored this just-as-important, tiny little inner tug I've been feeling.  My sweet little inner artist has been gently pulling on my creative hem, asking me in the quietest of whispers (she very polite and doesn't like to holler) "Mom, don't you think it's time to start writing again?"  Sad to say, I've chosen to focus on my biz-iness and have repeatedly ignored. her.
     Well, today I felt a jolt - more of a hard jerk than a polite tug, really - on the hem of my artisticness.  (I just made up a word)  I even heard that polite little inner artist give a great, big uncharacteristic YELL:  "HEY!!!, are you listening to me!?!?!"  Oops!  Nope.
     So, just now, I went and hunted down my "next" journal. (it took some hunting!)  I bought it some time ago & only recently found it in storage, where it's been since I moved four years ago.  I'd bought it because of  the quote on its front:  "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!  Live the life you've imagined."  Thoreau said that.
     Well, I have dreams.  I'm usually a pretty confident gal (although I've been known on occasion to suffer from the affliction called FEAR).  And I'm moving forward with my new online art biz (thanks to the help I'm getting from my new ecourse from Kelly Rae Roberts:  "Flying Lessons:  Let's Make Your Creative Biz Soar!").  I am, indeed, moving toward living the life I've imagined.  And you know what?.. I'm oh soooo glad you've come along with me on this, the journey of my exciting, new, creative life!
     Hey, I think I'll even go write about this in my new/old journal!  Do you have one?  C'mon, let's journal together!