I'm Still Alive and Kicking...

I'm sorry to have worried a couple of friends by my extended absense. Life got complicated and busy. I'm again dealing with health issues related to my heart/arteries, Multiple Sclerosis, and now am at high risk for a left hip and leg fracture from osteoporosis. Yikes! Getting old is hard, but it's still awesome to be alive!

I continue to participate in the Grow Me a Story online classes, doing a bit of writing (not consistantly, but hey, still trying), playing with some creative art projects, and working to get my home back in order. Three years since my bypass surgery, during Covid, meant many things in my home got neglected, and I wasn't the best housekeeper before all that! Haha!

My intention is to try to write a new post at least once a week. I'm adding that to my long list of goals for the coming year. One thing I got done was my Vision Board for 2023.

On my Vision Board you can see my hopes, dreams, and goals for the coming year. You can also see images that bring me joy. 

I've been posting images to my Instagram account. Mine is private, but if you are a friend and you are on Instagram, you can send me a follow request if you're interested. It's fairly new to me, but I do try to post at least once a week there. This is the link:  https://www.instagram.com/anitajo75/

Here's to a year filled with many new and exciting things! Looking for the good! 

Refresh, Dream, Imagine

Those are just some of the words on a vision board I created. It was a recent project for one of the Grow Me A Story assignments. I had so much fun creating it. One afternoon, while listening to a Hallmark Mystery, I took a stack of 10 magazines and tore out images that spoke to me. The next afternoon, as a Creative Rendevous, I found Carole King's complete Tapestry album on YouTube and listened to it while creating my vision board. I clipped, trimmed, arranged, and glued, keeping the best and discarding a few. It was a wonderful way to spend some creative time for myself. It also made me think about how I see myself, what my dreams and goals are, and where I plan to go from here.

Missing from the vision board are images directly relating to writing or publishing. Part of this process is discovering where I want to go with that particular dream, or if I still wish to pursue it. Life brings a lot of changes, redirection, paths we didn't plan on taking, and once in a while it brings us back to an old dream. I am definitely exploring who I could be as a writer.

What is reflected on the vision board is my desire for an organized, comfortable home; a focus on healthy eating and good health, which hopefully means I will be able to drive again this year; words to spark my creative self, like imagine and dream; finding my bliss, my joy in living; integrating more fun into my life by returning to things I love like going to tag sales and listening to music; the squares of blue symbolize my color for this year and the blue yarn is a nod to the two short stories I wrote for the class; Cyndi Lauper and Nina Garcia symbolize my love for fashion, design, independence, and creativity. That is a brief explanation of my vision board, which you can see below, though much of it goes deeper. Something to explore on another day perhaps.

2022 Vision Board

I do intend to be writing more faithfully on this blog, and I am excited to see where this year takes me! 

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