February Reflections

February went by so quickly, it seems only yesterday we were scoffing pancakes and gorging on chocolate hearts. I’m quite excited to be well into 2016 now. Here are a few things I’d like to share with you from February:

Quotation

With spring just about emerging we’re involved in a moment of transition. I love how Julia Cameron draws comparisons between creativity and seasonal change:

‘When we are incubating something creatively, we follow a cycle of seasons. We begin locked in winter, when we look and feel devoid of ideas, although the ideas are there for us, simply dormant. Our wintry hearts lurch toward spring and suddenly an idea puts out a hopeful bud. The idea may be as festive as the buoyant cherry blossoms. Our idea is bright and indisputable. We blossom as the landscape does.  And then what happens? As surely as the seasons turn, our brightly budded ideas must now ripen and mature. Spring turns the corner into summer. Showy pink gives way to industrious green. Now come the long days of labour. We must work to bring forth the fruit of what we have envisioned.’ Julia Cameron

Reading

The highlight of my reading this month has been The World Before Us by Aislinn Hunter. I’m hoping to write a review of this soon. It’s a beautifully written story in which the past and the present, in this case the modern day and the Victorian era, interlink to create a compelling study of memory and environment. The book’s focus is on the idea of the things we surround ourselves with and what this reveals about who we are. It’s always exciting when you find a new author and I’m looking forward to reading more of her work.

Writing

Talking of Hunter she wrote a brilliant blog about writing spaces. I think this line is so interesting: ‘The strange thing about the act of writing and the writer’s environment is the way in which the writer is both present and absent in that space – how writing imaginatively necessitates a kind of leave-taking, an untethering.’ Read the full article here.

Celebration

This month lots of lovely things have been happening to some of my favourite people and I’m very excited for them. I think it’s really important to celebrate all the good things that happen for you and other people as well as the smaller, everyday things that could easily be taken for granted. Make a list today of ten great things in your life that are worth celebrating.

Three things to look forward to in March:

Easter

Pastel Colours

Spring walks

 

What have been some of the highlights of your February? What are you looking forward to in March?