Prompt: Seasons – 02 | One of the concepts inherent in the change of seasons is the idea of transition. What kind of transition are you experiencing at this point in your life – or can you identify a major time of transition in the past? Write about it..
In the last six months, I’ve started spending more and more time rock climbing with Jake. I am trying to deliberately shift my focus from a season of going inward to a season of going outward.
I saw this quote a few weeks ago and it stopped me in my tracks: “Where there’s love, nothing is too much trouble and there’s always time.” (sidenote: you can buy the amazing print here. It hangs on the wall above my desk.)
I set so many goals and make so many plans that I can always keep myself busy. I can read for days on end. I can draw and journal and spend time curled up on the couch. Couple that with the tough, tough year that 2018 was, I just went all the way inward.
But in the last six months, I’ve been trying to shift this and start going outward. I’ve been going hiking with Jake and the kids, climbing with Jake, I’ve been trying to give more time, be more expansive. I’ve been trying to join, stretch, welcome and remember that there’s always time.
This year I am planning to do something different than last year. Around last September, I stopped taking a lot of daily photos which then meant I also stopped scrapbooking. I have several of the Story Kit’s piled up. So I decided to switch gears a bit and see if I can use Ali’s prompts to tell my stories. I might (or might not) also turn them into scrapbook pages. In the meantime, I will just enjoy telling my stories.
Stories from 2020 is a year-long project for 2019. You can read more about my projects for 2020 here. The prompts are from Ali’s Story Kits unless mentioned otherwise. I have started an instagram account for these, we’ll see if I keep it up.
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