#littlestreams

#littlestreams • 4/365 1. I noticed this tree noticing me one time on a hike. 2. Currently watching: The Flash ⚡️ + Glee 🎶 What shows are you watching/do you recommend? I love to add things to lists (as should be obvious now)! 3. Today wasn't very eventful and I am too tired for thoughts. 4. "If you feel like nothing significant is happening, you are the significant thing unraveling." @mothsandscorpions 🖤

#littlestreams • 2/365 1. I've started switching my phone to Airplane Mode when I go to bed so that I'm unplugged and notification-free in the mornings until I'm done with my coffee & my creative routine and ready to connect. Best thing I've done for my focus in months. 👌🏼 2. @bisforbrooks reminded me that @panicatthedisco's A Fever You Can't Sweat Out exists in all its early '00s glory so I blasted it CD player style and danced wildly across my living room because nostalgia. 3. #teabagwisdom: "Do no harm but take no flack." 4. My favorite mug says 'trust the process' on it. The best thing about it is that it's encouraging on both kinds of days: the kind where the process is alive and humming, and the kind where I badly need the reminder that everything is a cycle and a journey. There's never a bad day to drink out of that mug. (at Verve Coffee Roasters)

#littlestreams • 3/365 1. My new neighbors threw an awesome party tonight. I'm full with connection and hearty laughter. And margaritas. And cake. 2. My daughter is back home from spending the summer with her dad. How quickly the challenges return, but oh, how quickly the love. 3. Social Saturdays call for solitary Sundays. Always balance. 4. What I am most excited for in this moment is to turn the light off, lay here in the dark watching my mind drift, and fall asleep. The simple joys are all that matter. The rest is just noise. F*** that noise. ✌🏼 — Image via @pinterest • Original source unknown

#littlestreams • 6/365 1. it's nice to sit in bed with warm tea and the crickets outside in the dark and my inner workings and the outer mysteries to contemplate. 2. tomorrow's goals: • get back to a place of centeredness. • dedicate some time to slow, intentional, and restful for a little while. 3. this week has been intense. 4. everything and everyone is a mirror.

#littlestreams • 5/365 1. This image sums up my day. We're not always productive. We're not always motivated. And that's okay because something is still happening behind the scenes, things shifting and rearranging. On days like these we do our best to trust in ourselves and in life, and in the power of a good night's sleep and the reset button of a sunrise. 2. We are all creating our stories as we go. There is no script to follow, only lines to write ourselves. 3. "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." -Thoreau 4. I have plenty of castles. I will try again at those foundations tomorrow.

#littlestreams • 1/365 I've decided to start a 365-day project. A stream-of-consciousness list of four anythings every day. An exercise in brevity, honesty, trusting my voice, and loving imperfection. ▾ 1. I was buzzing with energy while fleshing out this idea, but now that it's time to make the list my mind is all over the place and I can't focus on any one thought long enough to communicate it. I guess that's the beauty of a stream-of-consciousness list: it doesn't have to be particularly profound or poetic. It just has to be real. 2. I still don't quite know what I'm doing. I mean this in reference to this project and as a general statement. 3. Current thought: I'm only on number three? I'm sure this will become more fluid as I go. Especially if I do it at a time that is not 3 AM after wine. (Actually the wine helps.) 4. When there are so many things to say, sometimes I end up saying nothing. — Art by @artworkbylie • I'm excited to feature artwork I adore along with these lists on some days. So much beauty + talent to spread!

There are no rivers in Jersey and the steams are often not much more than a trickle but the recent heavy rain means that all the streams are in full spate and looking really pretty. This one is round the corner from us off a little footpath that I found one day by accident. Good things happen when you wander. . . . . . #jerseyci #jersey #jerseychannelislands #allwhowanderarenotlost #littlestreams #winterwalks #visitjerseyci #visitjersey #theislandbreak #vibrantjersey #january #walk1000miles #stream #water (at Jersey) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJl9SVHjdi8/?igshid=ewv3f7jydd2s

overflowing with anticipation for spring ( because it rained nonstop today 😔 ) #littlestreams #goldsteinbach #floodwater #springiscalling #nature #bodiesofwater (hier: Goldsteintal) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9XH1yHKyRy/?igshid=1i5jyqu5tsgko