Let's Get Ready Together | 1 of 5
The Getting Ready for Wonder Series | Gathering for a Courageous Journey
Friends, I am so excited about our journey. Truly, it has already begun. It started the moment you signed up. The moment you said yes to opening your world to more creativity. The moment you took the brave first step and signed yourself up for more wonder. That’s not a small thing. You are HERE.
Here, You Get to Explore the Creative Expression That Lights You Up in a Community Where You Already Belong
Imagine a room filled with tables and chairs. Light strands twinkle as they crisscross the space above our heads. The aroma of freshly ground coffee (or steeping tea if you prefer) fills the air. Some of us are sitting with cozy cups of hot beverages in our hands as we chat. It’s day one of our incredible journey together.
Each of us has brought the supplies that we like to make with or that we want to explore. On the side wall, our daily one-word wonder prompt is inscribed: FOREST.
Some of you paint a watercolor forest scene. Some of you play with your paints to make color palettes that speak “forest” to you. Others use that word to write a one-line poem or story starter. Some of you draw. Others sketch the first illustration of an imaginary fashion collection.
Someone knits a line with shades of forest-colored yarn and then changes colors for day 2 based on that prompt. Some of you start with oil pastels and decide to move acrylics. Maybe some of you take your cameras or phones to photograph a local forest.
We all pull out our supplies and gather around tables to start creating. Every single one of our projects looks different. Creativity fills the room and spills out bringing beauty and wonder to everything it touches.
And as we create together, we sip coffee and tea and share inspiration, encourage one another, laugh, snack, and most of all: we belong.
We are a community of courage, making wonder and kindness and beauty a habit.
Beloved, there is no way to get this wrong. None. It’s impossible. And you don’t have to worry about fitting in or if people will like you or what they will think about your creative work.
You don’t have to shave off parts of who you are to fit inside someone else’s box. You don’t have to fit in at all because, here, you already belong.
That’s the picture that was in my head when I made the Instagram Reel that went viral and brought so many of you here. Which I am still blown away by. 😭✨🥰 Thank you for being here again.
This is a huge part of my dream for our group 100-Day Project this year and our community beyond it.
Our 100-Days of Wonder is all of us creating in our own ways using the one-word wonder prompts I wrote for my own 100-Day Project this year to keep myself on track and energized.
This week in between dropping links into Instagram messages, I’ve been working on a series of posts so we can all get ready together!
Here’s the schedule so you know what’s coming your way.
What’s Coming In Our Getting Ready Series
Post 2 of 5: Choosing Our Focus and Frame of Mind
Post 3 of 5: Getting the Most from our One-Word Wonder Prompts
Post 4 of 5: Preparing Our Supplies
Post 5 of 5: Sharing Our Work & Connecting as a Community
[NOTE: I did rearrange these 01/26 because as I have been writing, I realized this order would be easier to follow and make more sense!]
If You Want to Share on Instagram or Social Media that You’re Doing the #100DaysofWonder2024 as Your 100-Day Project This Year, Here’s a Shareable Graphic ⬇️
Other Posts in This Series
You May Also Like:
Questions of How to Navigate Around This Space? Our Quick Start Guide Should Help: