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I’m going to be honest. This last few weeks around here have been filled with 2nd guessing myself, Olympic-level overthinking, bad sleep decisions, and general disagreeableness.

It has reminded me of when I spent a semester in a Bangladeshi village at 19. Mostly on my own for 4 months dropped in a village 3 days on an ox cart past the last urban anything. We were in rainy season, and the roads looked like that image above.

Oozing mud reached my ankle or higher. Context note: I have one leg and use crutches to walk.

Every few steps the suction power of that viscous goo I was slogging through would consume a crutch tip. Pull it right off. SLURP. Gone. I quickly gathered an entourage of village kiddos spelunking through mud to dig me out every 10 feet or so.

For the girl 🙋🏻‍♀️ who hated to ask for help, wow, was that a lesson. Even almost 30 years later.

That’s what the last month-ish has felt like around here.

This last week has come with some deep reflection and realization… We are in such a different place now in the world than we were when I started this Substack in 2023-2024 with our first 100 Days of Wonder. I am in a much different place too.

I love creative challenges. But I am realizing there are times when they can overwhelm and shut down the very creativity you are hoping to wake up. The trick is to know yourself well enough to know when they are helping to stretch you. And when they are suffocating the joy right out of what you’re doing.

Seth Godin talks about elements of this in his little book, The Dip. The “dip” is the hard part where pushing through brings real value on the other side. But there are other times it’s a cliff or a culdesac where more push-through isn’t helpful at all.

• If I push through the hard part, does this meaningfully improve and offer value?

• Or am I just staying because I started?

So I want to do something I’ve never done in the many creative challenges I’ve hosted here and on social media—remind you that you have permission to quit anything that isn’t serving you. With ZERO shame.

If this (or any) creative challenge is not building your creative JOY or growth, I’m going to suggest redirecting that precious energy into a direction that will.

The last thing I want is for this space to be “homework” in your inbox. God, no.

So I’m rearranging a few things to better serve the wonder we all need more of. Myself included.

Starting next week, I’m sending you a weekly Saturday essay. The prompts to finish this 100-Day Project will still be sent, but they will arrive linked in that essay. You can click through or not.

Why? I’m writing a book and I need to get back to writing the kind of words that are pulled from the depths of the stretch marks in my soul not a prompt jar. Back to the joy of language and expression and telling you about forages wild evening primrose and infusing it into jojoba oil.

I need to prioritize more joy in the absurd times we are dancing through. And maybe you do too. Sleep better, care for my body and not get strapped into the doom loop roller coaster white-knuckled in survival mode.

I want you to hear from me, brew some tea and enjoy a letter from a friend. Not file this as another set of things to do.

And if you are loving our 100-Days of Wonder prompts… they still will be coming, just linked as an option instead of the main event.

Thank you for being here and letting me change and grow with you.

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The Daily Prompts: April 12-18

From Penelope the Prompt Jar… holy heck, I wrote the letter above before I pulled these prompts!

• DAY 50 | April 12: What does consistency feel like today?

• DAY 51 | April 13: What does growth feel like from the inside?

• DAY 52 | April 14: How does movement impact your creativity?

• DAY 53 | April 15: What does possibility look like right now?

• DAY 54 | April 16: What does creative joy feel like?

• DAY 55 | April 17: Write about the last time you discovered something surprising.

• DAY 56 | April 18: What practice helps you return to yourself?

As always, I am so grateful you are here.

All my love,

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Thank you for all the love for Charlie. We are still figuring things out, but he is hanging in there. I had some medical testing this week so it was my turn to be slightly slower than usual. But I’m getting back in the swing of things and I can’t wait to be back writing more in the coming week.

What has been the biggest thing that has stood out to you now that we are almost halfway through? I’d love to hear your favorite aha moment you’ve had so far.

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The Daily Prompts: April 05-11

From Penelope the Prompt Jar…

• DAY 43 | April 05: Where do you want to invite more wonder into?

• DAY 44 | April 06: What does it mean to you to take up creative space?

• DAY 45 | April 07: What story does your creative work want to share with others?

• DAY 46 | April 08: What lessons are you learning about connection through your art?

• DAY 47 | April 09: What do you need to focus?

• DAY 48 | April 10: What has your art revealed that you didn’t expect?

• DAY 49 | April 11: What does your art want to try next?

In case you missed it…

It was a quiet week and you’re all caught up!

As always, I am so grateful you are here.

All my love,

Consistency. Everyone’s favorite word! Admittedly, I chose it because it is something I am really working on.

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My poodle Charlie just turned 12 and is having a flare-up of some health conditions that have kept me taking care of him this weekend. Thoughts & prayers are so appreciated. He’s my baby. 💕

The Daily Prompts: March 29-April 04

From Penelope the Prompt Jar…

• DAY 36 | March 29: What season of creativity are you in right now?

• DAY 37 | March 30: What do you tend to notice that others may overlook?

• DAY 38 | March 31: If your creative work could pose a question, what would you want it to be?

• DAY 39 | April 01: Describe what it feels like to be part of something bigger.

• DAY 40 | April 02: What creative door has recently opened for you?

• DAY 41 | April 03: Is there a creative question you are afraid to ask? What is it?

• DAY 42 | April 04: What new perspective has intrigued you lately?

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In case you missed it…

As always, I am so grateful you are here. It is an honor to serve you.

All my love,

Honestly, the flattening effect of short-form media crept up on me. I didn’t even realize it was happening until I tried to craft something longer than an Instagram caption. Suddenly structuring a thesis and stating my points felt more like high-altitude rock climbing than writing.

One of the ways I got my words back post-TBI was by studying copywriting. This discipline gave me tools to research and find the words that lived in my audience’s head—as well as my own. I will always be grateful for that.

But copywriting is often short, conversational, and crafted to be pithy, almost to a fault. It is designed to hook you, but it only dives deep enough to get you to take the next desired action. Scroll down the page. Click the button. You know what copywriting doesn’t do well at all? Write a spacious, engaging book with depth of soul. Literary writing is a completely different world.

Since embarking on this writing adventure, I have come face-to-face with my own verbal inadequacies. Writing has felt like an exercise in squeezing ink from a rock. For over a year I have stared at my screen willing words to come that have simply refused to enter the stage on cue. Rude. (But it’s not the word’s fault. Not really.)

I’ve been quieter here because I have been trying to find the way back to my literary voice. And I’ve had to deep dive into reclaiming my own attention just to write about the importance of… reclaiming our attention. 🤣

One of the most vital things I’ve done to get my attention back has been to return to what was once a daily anchor for me: reading physical books and writing by hand in a notebook. My life unfolded in page after page of handwritten journals, starting when I was 15 through my 30s in Africa.

But when I returned to the US in 2013, I stopped writing. It was a devastating move, and I no longer trusted my voice to have anything worth saying. Then came the brain injury that took my words. So for the last decade there have been only scant scribbles and spurts stretched across a very few notebooks.

Sue Monk Kidd writes, “Writing is more than creating language and story. It also involves the creation of self.”

It takes attention to create anything—especially your own becoming.

Personally, I would rather not live in a world of 30-second soundbites where my attention gets auctioned to the highest bidder. I’m going to venture maybe you don’t either.

I want to be crystal clear about the dynamics that are at play. We live in an economy that is built to extract our attention and keep us scrolling (and spending).

Reclaiming that attention may be simple, but that doesn’t mean it is easy. It is not one-and-done, a box we check off, or a level we attain. It is rather an ongoing practice and an intentional posture we maintain.

What Attention Is & Why It Is Vital, Especially in an Age of Algorithms

The English word attention is derived from the Latin root attentio, meaning to stretch towards, as in active mental effort or focused concentration. The word also came to mean care and consideration. Taking back my attention has been one of the most important and stretching things I have ever done—pun completely intended.

When our attention gets fragmented, we are literally being stretched thin. Attention has a finite capacity. It can be exhausted and fatigued. And, as such, it requires care to protect and replenish.

In addition to our feeds and algorithms, navigating this new landscape of AI-everything adds a level of complexity to things. Whether we recognize it or not, AI writing has become utterly pervasive and ubiquitous on the internet.1 It is woven into online advertising, emails, scripts for YouTube videos, social media accounts, and sadly, even some books. AI is dramatically scaling the amount of content we have to sift through online which adds even more strain to our attention resources.

In the days ahead, it will be increasingly vital to not only know how to steward our focus but also how to recognize AI content and manipulation. Our democracy, freedom, and sanity may very well depend on it.

How to Get Your Attention Back, Even If You Can’t Move to a Cottage in the Woods

If I am really honest, all of this makes a part of me want to hide in an almost off-grid cabin in the woods. It’s so tempting. But for the vast majority of us, myself included, that’s obviously not a sustainable reality. There are, however, things we can do to help move towards balance. These are some of the things I am currently finding most helpful.

📱 I deleted apps that either extracted my attention or exploited it for someone else’s profit. TikTok and Amazon were my first two to go. While I liked some content, the format of TikTok was horrible for my brain health and my nervous system. It just wasn’t worth it. Amazon got cut because it was too easy to spend money I didn’t need to be spending. I am not here to tell you to delete a specific app. I am here to suggest we need to recognize anything that is depleting and extracting our attention for someone else’s profit.

☕️ I have scroll-free mornings. I now read a physical book and write in a journal as I enjoy my coffee. I don’t check my phone until I have to use it to create for work. Also, I turn my phone screen to grayscale when I am not working. Have you ever tried doomscrolling social media in grayscale? It almost put me to sleep!

📖 Reading physical books and now writing in an actual notebook every day for journaling. Writing even a few lines each day is one of the most grounding things I can do because I am honoring my own presence as worthy to take up space on a page.

✅ Monotask, micro-blast, and take a nap. Sorry I had to make that rhyme. I work on one thing at a time and when I feel exceedingly stuck, I blast a sheet of paper (usually in my planner) with everything I think I need to get done in the smallest minutia possible. Things that feel so small I can’t not do at least some of them. Also, I take naps now!

📝 I created a custom focus mode on my phone named Hobbit Hole Mode that turns off every notification—including the badges (the number that appears on an app icon saying how many notifications you have). This let’s me disappear from the world while I write.

💻 I started writing in a program called Obsidian. It is a super stripped-down, free program that just lets me write and organize my thoughts old school. It is analog-adjacent, which means it lives on my actual device with no cloud-based anything or subscription. Of course I have to manually back up everything, but that’s sweetly nostalgic. It returns me to the days of writing in Africa with a kerosene lantern and waning laptop battery.

Getting our attention back is about emotional regulation far more than it is external restriction. Restrictions may offer immediate structure, but they often don’t last for the long term. Whereas internal regulation is what happens when we go on a journey to learn what is healthy for us and our needs. Some things might need to go altogether. Others primarily require boundaries. And these decisions vary vastly between individuals and even between different life seasons.

One thing remains clear. If we want to experience more wonder in our world, reclaiming our attention is a crucial element in being able to find it.

The kind of wonder we talk about here isn’t ethereal aesthetics. It’s about showing up and practicing the art of noticing, training our attention to begin to see the small moments of goodness and beauty that unfold around us every single day. Not as a way to escape or bypass hard realities, but rather as a resilience strategy to make it through them.

So my friend, what is your attention stretching you towards today?

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Attention. It feels like it is everywhere in my world these days. Stacks of the latest studies are stacked on my desktop. It is the crux of the book I am working on writing right now on finding wonde…

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I thought I might start sharing my responses to one or more of the previous week’s prompts. This question was the one that stood out the most to me personally.

When does practice feel most nourishing?

When I sit with my tea/coffee and my pen and journal in silence. Usually with 1-3 books I am meandering through. I used to love having instrumental music on when I wrote or created. Now it completely shuts me down and sends my brain into a panic. I still have fairly major sensory processing issues from my 2018 brain injury. It has redefined my creative practice, and my world in so many ways. I am forced to prioritize single-minded attention because I no longer have the brain bandwidth to try to convince myself I can multitask. (Which is a myth by the way. No one can multitask. We are all task switching, but that is a post for another day!)

But here’s what I am learning. There are things to push through to regain what was lost. And there are other things that are just different. Maybe one day I’ll slowly train my brain to handle music again. But right now I am ok in silence and the clicking of my keys as I type.

I DO, however, love my clickety lilac keyboard that would have driven me nuts 10 years ago. All that to say… we change. Our rhythms change for many reasons. The things that nourish us are invitations to let our practice hold us right where we are. And keep growing with us.

PS. I still groove to showtunes when I rebound. Currently The Greatest Showman is on repeat. Specifically the chorus of From Now On. If you want to smile, imagine me joy-bouncing on my rebounder on my one leg to that chorus on repeat. (My rebounder has a balance bar, don’t worry.)

The Daily Prompts: March 22-28

From Penelope the Prompt Jar…

• DAY 29 | March 22: What identity are you stepping into creatively?

• DAY 30 | March 23: What does celebration look like in your creative life?

• DAY 31 | March 24: How might a specific constraint might spark your creativity?

• DAY 32 | March 25: What playful practice might help you loosen up?

• DAY 33 | March 26: What unexpected materials or supplies feel like they are calling your name?

• DAY 34 | March 27: When does being seen feel supportive?

• DAY 35 | March 28: What unanswered question keeps you creating?

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In case you missed it — you are all caught up.

It’s been quiet here because I’ve been working on the parts of my book needed for finishing its proposal. It is deep, sacred, soulful work that takes a level of attention I have not broached in a very long time. I’ll be writing more about that journey here on some of our weekday posts because it is stretching me out in humbling ways I truly did not expect. I don’t want to just write a book, I want to construct a refuge you can inhabit with words to hold onto.

As always, I am so grateful you are here. It is an honor to serve you.

All my love,

I’ve been a busy bee behind the scenes these last few weeks reimagining how we can add more value to this Weekly Wonder Drop in ways that feel delightful and not like homework.

Over the coming weeks,…

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It’s week 4 of 100 Days of Wonder. We’ve made it a whole 21 days!

I’m adding our prompts below in this email to make it even simpler to access and keep up with. You are welcome and encouraged to share your thoughts from the prompts in the comments of this post.

I can’t wait to read your insights and experiences and what stood out to you from our prompts this week.

The Daily Prompts: March 15-21

From Penelope the Prompt Jar…

• DAY 22 | March 15: What does follow the clues mean to you?

• DAY 23 | March 16: Where does wonder live in your every day routines?

• DAY 24 | March 17: What does it mean to truly own your creative journey?

• DAY 25 | March 18: When does practice feel most nourishing?

• DAY 26 | March 19: What sense of wonder are you recovering? (Hint: Think back to when you were a child. What would you like to have more of now?)

• DAY 27 | March 20: What does your inner child want you to create?

• DAY 28 | March 21: How would you define mutual inspiration? Have you experienced it before?

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In Case You Missed It

As we are blooming into a brand new writing schedule here this spring, I will be sharing links to posts that have gone out during the previous week.

As always, I am so grateful you are here. It is an honor to serve you.

All my love,

Beloved, something new is springing up! One of the most requested things I hear echoed online is a place to genuinely connect. To feel less alone.

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If this is wobbly, it’s because I’m writing in a Benadryl-induced haze thanks to the prolific pine pollen coating every surface around my North Florida cottage. Something happened this week that was not on my 2026 bingo card…

A few days ago I noticed two screens in my soffits were disturbed. When I went to repair them, we found out there was a raccoon that had moved in. Given the time of year, likely she was a mama-to-be looking for a safe den.

A raccoon nursery… in my attic. 🦝 It sounds like a story book. So of course, I had to name her. Meet Rosie the Raccoon.

I see the world through the lens of metaphor. You might call it an occupational hazard of being a writer. When something completely unexpected happens (a la raccoon nursery in my attic), I pause to listen deeper to see if there might be a lesson waiting.

Allow me to share for a moment what incredible creatures raccoons are.

Raccoons explore the world with their hands. Their curiosity guides nearly everything they do. I suspect this masked mama might illustrate something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately.

When the world feels uncertain, curiosity becomes one of the most powerful ways to move forward.

Raccoons are the poster children for embodied curiosity.

I’m literally in the middle of researching and writing about curiosity for my book, and it turns out that Rosie could be this section’s mascot.

Raccoons “see” the world through touch. 2/3rds of a raccoon’s brain is dedicated to processing tactile information. When they “wash” their food, they are wetting down their hands to make them more sensitive to touch and thus gain additional information.

They rival primates in their intelligence. Raccoons can remember things for years and are capable of observational learning. That means they can learn things by watching other raccoons do them. They also practice trial-and-error adaptibility with high levels of problem-solving.

Raccoon mamas are fierce protectors of their babies. Male raccoons will find dens and destroy the young so the females will go back into heat. Which is why I’ve had to spend so much to secure the rest of my soffits. The mamas will also move the kits multiple times if necessary to keep them safe.

Raccoons exist in the liminal spaces on the edges of things between the wild and the human world. They move in the dark and twilight hours.

Raccoons investigate the unfamiliar and adapt accordingly. They explore overlooked spaces (like my attic) and inhabit the margins. The personification of resilience and persistence, raccoons look at a world of obstacles and keep finding alternate openings, unexpected shelters, and overlooked resources.

Rosie reminds us curiosity is a survival skill in an age of uncertainty.

All this goes even deeper. Raccoons are considered boundary walkers in some folklore story traditions. Boundary walkers are characters that teach us how to navigate complexity and can be considered an archetype of creativity.

Because they make sense of the world through touch, raccoons speak to me of the importance of embodied curiosity in a world of volatility, information overload, and chronic disconnection.

My relationship with my injured brain changed when I stopped railing at its deficits and leaned into curiosity. That didn’t mean I wasn’t frustrated. It just meant I allowed my frustration to be a cue for curiosity rather than contempt.

Curiosity is the first part of The Wonder Habit®’s wonder wheel. Because Curiosity is the entry point that makes Connection, Courage, Creativity, and Compassion possible.

The curiosity I am referring to in this context isn’t just intellectual or abstract. It is embodied exploration. It is tactile and adaptive. And it is a function of our attention being intentionally engaged rather than extracted by our screens.

Raccoons thrive because of their curiosity and investigation of apparent obstacles. They remind us that we can be shaped by the practice of leaning toward what we do not yet fully understand.

Curiosity is the refusal to let the surface of things be all we see. It reminds us to stop moving through life as if everything is already settled and the story we are living through written in stone. We don’t have to settle for the shape of things as they are.

Curiosity helps us reclaim both our agency and our attention in a timeline that wants to control both. And as such it is in itself an act of beautiful resistance.

Wonder is participatory, not passive. It doesn’t float down from the ceiling unsolicited. Wonder invites us to explore a bigger, better story. And that bigger story can be held in tiny moments where we let our curiosity unlock new ways of being in the world.

Case in point, my attic still needs to be repaired. Rosie’s relocation still costs a lot of money. As in $4000 a lot of money. It has been inconvenient and disruptive.

Wonder doesn’t pretend hard things aren’t hard. But the practice of wonder can change the way we see the world in the middle of hard things.

So that is why you find me turning Rosie into an adorable illustration. Why I did a deep dive into raccoon facts and folklore. I am relentlessly determined to excavate the good that is buried in the hard.

Anne Lamott famously said, “You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”

In seasons of instability, it is easy to cope by grasping for anything that feels like certainty. Even when that certainty is false or manipulative.

Psychologists call this the need for “cognitive closure.”1 Our brains do not like ambiguity. They interpret it as a threat signal.

When uncertainty rises, we are likely to seize the first plausible explanation we find, freeze that into a belief system, and resist new information. Cognitive researchers refer to this dynamic as “seizing and freezing.”

It can make us susceptible to misinformation, manipulation, rigid thinking, and increased polarization. Succinctly, it makes us easier to control.

The antidote? Cultivating curiosity. Because curiosity allows our brains to approach uncertainty rather than avoid it.

Instead of treating ambiguity purely as a threat, curiosity reframes the unknown as information to explore. Simply put, this activates learning circuits in our brain and keeps us thinking rather than reacting. Curiosity helps us refuse to flatten the world around us and reduce it to that which makes us most comfortable.

Curiosity feels like a vital part of being able to traverse our current landscape. Which is why I’m writing a book. 😉

Let me leave you with this:

What if the most stabilizing thing right now is not finding greater certainty but cultivating deeper curiosity?

Just like raccoons can see the world through their hands in the middle of the night, curiosity can help us find our way through the dark.

Here are two practical things to try.

• Instead of doomscrolling and numbing your feelings, practice curiosity by interviewing one big emotion like you are an investigative reporter. Grab your reporter’s notebook (or the back of an envelope) and ask that emotion questions. Where did it come from? What does it want you to know? Etc. Then answer your questions as that emotion.

• Curiosity isn’t an abstract intellectual exercise. Pick something to learn as a tactile learner. For example, instead of just studying about Monet in an art book, read his letters. Paint studies of his paintings. Take your art materials and find your Giverny.

So tell me, what are you curious about right now? In what ways has curiosity helped you move through challenges in the past?

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🪷 Some new things are blooming around here for spring…

I’m trying out a new Substack schedule for spring and I’m so excited to share more writing and encouragement with you throughout the week. And provide a space for greater connection.

Y’all KNOW I love a good prompt. But I am deeply aware prompts can feel like homework and in our current event timeline, we do not need one more thing to do or feel behind on. So here are the changes I’m experimenting with this spring in hopes of serving you better.

• Monday: A longer form essay like this one (Free)

• Wednesday: Wildcard mix of content (Free)

• Thursday: Reviving our #DearCreatives series. (Free)

• Saturday: 100 Days of Wonder content during the challenge (Free)

• Sunday: Prompt & Ponder, our paid weekly wonder drop that is a mix of wonder prompts, seasonal creative practices, the audio of me reading select essays from the week with impromptu commentary, a weekly community conversation post, and other periodic surprise downloadable goodies. (Paid)

It’s an ambitious schedule. But I’ve never been great at moderation. So in this case, I’m all in.

If this sounds good, please consider subscribing and sharing this to help me get the word out. I am so grateful you are here.

We all have a part to play in the days we are in. Helping you be more creative, feel less alone, find wonder every day is mine.

All my love

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Momentum is the art of showing up a little each day for your creativity. I think we often get it backwards. At least I know I do.

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Welcome to week 3 of 100 Days of Wonder, and the surprise I did not have on my bingo card for 2026. (Or my budget. 😳)

There’s a very expensive weekend boarder in my attic. I found out today that I have a raccoon mama and possibly babies nesting in one of my soffit areas.

Y’all, a raccoon nursery was not on my plan. Let alone the $4,000 it is going to cost to humanely remove her (and babies) and reinforce all of the possible entrances around my house so others don’t come back. As well as completely disinfecting my attic because they can carry a lot of very bad bugs.

I am trying to be mad about it, but she literally looks like this picture, just in my attic. How are they so dang cute? I know they are cagey, potentially dangerous, and not to be messed with… but that face.

She hasn’t been there very long, and everything seems to still be intact, so we just wish her a restful weekend with no additional indoor exploration, no parties, and absolutely NO other visitors.

Wonder doesn’t happen in perfect circumstances. It happens in the middle of everyday life, when a raccoon nests in your attic and your budget gets flipped upside down.

Life is noisy and complicated and stressful and just plain hilarious because I could not make this up.

So I am taking name ideas because she absolutely must be named. Please feel free to put suggestions in the comments.

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On our slightly new format…

Because inbox overwhelm is a real thing, I've switched up our format slightly. I am drawing all our prompts from our prompt jar for the week and putting them into a Saturday email like this one. Each day still has its own post and is linked below.

Simply click on the link for the day. And you will be able to comment and converse just like we have been.

This setup also allows you to choose when you interact with the prompts in case you want to answer any in advance. Hopefully this will be easier to plan around and keep track of!

The Daily Prompts: March 07-14

All my love,

Join the conversation and share your thoughts in the comments below. If creativity was a recipe, what ingredients might you want to prepare ahead of time?

Join the conversation and share your thoughts in the comments below. What shift are you noticing that feels small, but significant? Sometimes it is the tiniest changes that wind up making the biggest difference in the long run.

Join the conversation and share your thoughts in the comments below. What helps you be brave in your creativity?

Join the conversation and share your thoughts in the comments below. Boundaries can be hard or soft. Temporary or long-term. Sometimes they look like fences. Other times, like a silent mode on your phone. What is one of the most valuable boundaries you have set to date? How can it encourage you in the next boundary you are ready to set?

Join the conversation and share your thoughts in the comments below. What is one lesson you have learned through making a creative mistake or through an attempt that went sideways?