Words and Wisps: Showing Up For Yourself and Making Time
It’s the work that only you can put out into the world that embeds itself closest to your identity.
Words and Wisps is a personal ritual and reminder to write weekly and assemble monthly. Stitching together photos and handwritten notes to create a space for a slow scrolling, minimal hyperlinking, and thinking through ink. True to the experimental nature of this newsletter, here are the words (and leaves) in motion.
Show Up For Yourself
It can be easy to let personal projects fall to the wayside with deadlines sprawling out into “someday.” When commitments are self-imposed, time and scope feel malleable. Yet looking back, it’s the work that only you can put out into the world that follows you wherever you go and embeds itself closest to your identity. Showing up for yourself is about taking your own projects and time more seriously.
Arriving Adjacent
Writing a personal essay tends to follow the shape of a whorl more than a bullseye. Nothing is predetermined as you meander and spiral around a topic. Often arriving adjacent to your own expectations.
Awestruck By Awe-tumn
When the mountains and treetops scoop up the sky and the sun stills like a secret.
Making Time
There’s something about writing a to-do list in a conversational tone that makes each task feel more inviting and less of an obligation. On my calendar, here are some unconventional reminders I’m making time for each day:
Read for a bit
Dream a little
Breathe in a some sky
Fall in love with the unexpected