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Darcy's avatar

Vanessa, these are magical. I love your drawings so much.

vanessa jean's avatar

Awe, thanks! Thanks nice of you to say. And, I have an email incoming to you because we booked šŸ›«.

Stephanie Sweeney's avatar

I love your drawings! This is a cool challenge. Not consistent with any daily practice right now. But I’d like to incorporate one at some point. Can one love routines and also be terrible at dedicating to them? šŸ‘‹šŸ¼

vanessa jean's avatar

I am not sure a sentence has resonated more with me than this one - ā€œCan one love routines and also be terrible at dedicating to them?ā€ This is so so so so so so true! I love the idea of routines, and I want to be a person of routine - but I am absolutely a chaos monster who can’t do anything consistently or routinely. (And I suspect you have a daily practice, like ā€˜noticing’ or something. Your writing is so thoughtful - I feel like you probably have some habit of taking in the world every day.)

Stephanie Sweeney's avatar

That’s lovely to hear! I think I try to pay attention to certain things, observe moments, so I guess that is a practice, but not consistent. I did take a writing class where we kept a noticing notebook during the week and that’s one I want to try to make hasn’t but it hasn’t stuck. Maybe having different practices at different times can be its own practice?

vanessa jean's avatar

I love the idea of having different practices at different times as its own practice. I have a somewhat short attention span (with a curiosity about a lot of things) so yeah - this makes a lot of sense. I used to be really hard on myself for not being able to have a consistent practice all the time. I felt like it was some sort of personal deficiency. But I've decided that following my heart to the stuff that interests me in the moment (instead of having some sort of consistent practice) doesn't make me deficient. I say - if the noticing notebook feels like an interesting exercise for you (and not something you should do) give it another try. Cheers!

Stacey Cornelius's avatar

Your illustrations have so much personality. Love them!