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Connecting the dots between creative habit, drawing, writing, memory, gratitude, and making art in the margins. Plus, free Illustrate Your Week prompts for keeping an illustrated journal to document YOUR life. 🏳️🌈 🎨
Amy Cowen's "Illustrated Life" is a gentle, honest narrative of her artistic practice: How it intertwines with her life; the tools and exercises that take her places. She is an artist of image, word, and process, and her posts take readers into the mix and ferment of those three things. It's beautiful.
Your presence—how you show up to life—no matter how powerful or subtle, impacts what happens in your world, just because you are there. How do you choose to show up? How do you choose to make a difference?
Alan's wise and open-hearted writing has become a touchstone for me each week. His reflections and guidance help me return to ground. At a time when it feels as if the world and human society are changing rapidly, Alan makes space for the fluidity of our human experience and the rich possibilities in confusion. His writing – often personal, always reflective and compassionate – is like a lantern lighting a dark path.