Next year, we’ll start a new inner journey. Join me in The Alchemist Grove to go for an adventure that will make you discover your inner realm, and far more!
52 weeks, 52 cards. I will draw them, even if they will be heavily inspired by the one I made last summer for my own inner journey. We will follow the seasons, and learn, go in depth in what life has to offer. Att he end of the year, you will be able to get the actual card deck, if you want to.
52 weeks, 52 quotes stickers pages. You will be able to dowload them along the way, and print them, let them inspire you, share them, and let them be your journey companions.
52 weeks, 52 journaling prompts pages. Each week, I will give you prompts to go in depth into the week subject. You can do them whenever you want, if you feel like it. No obligation, no pressure, just the will to know who we are, who we became, who we want to be. It’s a discovery journey, an exploration, and something I want to be as useful and enjoyable as possible.
I will share my journney with you, and you can too if you want to, in the comment section. I will be honored to have you as companions, and I can’t wait to start this beautiful adventure.
So get ready, because this year, you will discover the alchemist in you!
Photo prise de ma chambre un soir d’orage. Les couleurs sont réelles.
Et une mer calme ne fabrique pas de marins aguerris/ Je remercie donc les cieux pour les tempêtes.
Parfois, les mots que l’on cherche désespérément à formuler le sont par d’autres et de manière magistrale.
Sometimes, words you desesperately look to express are been said by other people, and in a beautiful way.
Depuis quelques jours, et pour encore un bon moment je pense, je découvre l’univers d’un artiste complet, sans concession, mais qui mérite d’être plus connu et reconnu. Et oui, c’est un rappeur. Tom MacDonald. Celui qui a été capable de m’intéresser à ce genre musical. Je vous mets quelques vidéos à la fin de cet article, celles qui m’ont le plus touchée… A vous de vous faire votre propre opinion.
A few days ago, and for quite a moment I think, I discovered the universe of a complete, uncompromising artist, someone who really deserves to be known and recognize. And, yes… it’s a rapper… Tom MacDonald. The only one able to get me interested into this musical genre. I will put some videos at the end, those which touched me the most… And you can form your own judgment of him.
Ce qui ajoute un gros plus à cet artiste? Il est complètement indépendant, ce qui lui permet de dire et de faire ce qu’il veut. Sa compagne, Nova, elle même rappeuse, se charge de ses vidéos, et les deux forment une paire d’une créativité incroyable. Bref, en m’ouvrant un peu plus, j’ai découvert un nouvel univers.
What adds interest in this artist? He is completely independant, which allows him to say and do whatever he feels like to say and do. His girlfriend, Nova, herself a rapper, deals with the videos and the both of them make an incredible creative pair. So, by opining myself a bit more, I discovered a whole new universe.
Second card for this 2019 epopee. Sometimes, life makes us feel like we are on stand by. Nothing seems to evolve, nothing seems to change. Just plain stillness. Not a peaceful, blissful one, more like a « stuck in mud » one. Everything requires huge efforts to just shift a little. Energy is gone, will is anesthetized, and our body seems so heavy.
This is what happens when we don’t hear our inner voice telling us ‘rest!’, ‘step back!’, when we just ignore it and try to do what we are doing anyway. Bad idea. Life then reminds us that we are supposed to get some rest, to step back and to look at our life from a different perspective before we hit the wall…. If we don’t, then it takes care of it. And we find ourselves stuck in a cotton reality. Where we are forced to stop playing around and just watch.
I’ve learned the hard way to listen to my inner voice when it requires me to stop overdoing things. I’ve learned to spend time daily to step back, to think about my life, on a different perspective. I’ve learned to accept my mistakes and to try to make things better instead of going on, by pride. I’ve humbled myself. I’ve learned to look at my life with compassion, with empathy. I take each day as it comes, with enthusiasm. Because I know that, no matter what, I will learn something, I will grow through the day. Even my dullest days bring me something to ponder, to laugh at, to grow.
Because, at the end, this is what really matter: to grow. To become the best version of ourselves. To enjoy the life we get to live, despite those pesky hard days, those challenges, those pains. We are lucky.
And in order to do so, we need to realize that the little things can bring us a lot. So we just need to keep looking at our life, living it fully, loving it, to open our eyes and our hearts to what really matters.
We grow each and every day. We learn each and every day. We move on each and every day. We just need to open ourselves to this reality, to this truth. And be happy with it. Change can be hard, but I’ve noticed that it’s harder when we didn’t see it coming. If we are aware of what is going on in our life, then change is just a slight shift from a point to another. It’s just something we need to accept and/or do to evolve to our better self.
I don’t really care about the one I was 20 years ago, last year, last month, last week or even yesterday. I care about the one I am now. And I can’t wait to meet the one I will be tomorrow, next week, next month, next year, 20 years from now. I know I will meet these versions of myself when time has come. Till then, I go on my path, step by step, day by day, growing.
Bien. Ma tendinite est toujours là…. accompagnée de sa copine, Frustration. Je ne peux écrire ou dessiner plus de 5 minutes à la fois sans avoir de douleurs… Mais je suis ce que je suis, et j’ai ce proverbe en boucle dans ma tête depuis plusieurs jours… Ce qui signifie que je devais attraper mon porte mine, mes feutres, et le poser noir sur blanc. Ce que j’ai fait. Clairement difficile, la douleur a parfois dévié mes traits, mais voila, c’est fait…. J’ai renfilé mon atèle et je me suis promis de ne pas recommencer, sauf si une autre citations ou pensée envahit ma tête de nouveau….
Je dois vraiment avoir mis mon cerveau en vacances parce que j’avais oublié de publier l’article précédent!! C’est chose faite, du coup vous allez avoir le privilège de lire 2 articles au lieu d’un aujourd’hui hahaha.
J’ai repris mon carnet et j’ai continué à gribouiller. Des petits cadres, avec des fleurs…. et puis je suis vite repartie sur des mots, dans l’esprit de mes stickers, mais à la main cette fois!
Et puis j’ai voulu mettre de la couleur… bon clairement, même si le papier est épais, il n’est pas du tout fait pour l’aquarelle… mais sans challenge, pas d’amusement, donc j’ai quand même tenté! mes pinceaux sont trop gros? Pas de soucis, ça ajoute du fun!
J’ai scannée la version noir et blanc et ensuite la version colorée… et me voila à bidouiller avec GIMP pour tenter d’améliorer les petites bavures etc…. une fois fait, je me suis dit que je pouvais tout autant les enregistrer individuellement en png et vous les proposer… Voila donc mes stickers estivaux: des fleurs, des mots en français, d’autres en anglais, en version noir et blanc transparent (je me suis bien amusée à enlever tout le blanc… si si), et en version couleur (seuls les contours sont transparents). À utiliser en version digitale, ou à imprimer et coller où vous voulez.
Bon du coup, ça me donne de nouvelles envies ça…. et du coup il va falloir que je m’occuper de ma pièce à bazar en échange….. ce n’est pas facile tous les jours, je vous le dis!!