Hello, I’m really happy you’re here.
This is a quiet corner where I explore what it means to live with more heart and less hurry - through stillness, creativity, and connection. I’m someone learning, right alongside you, how to pause long enough to listen for what truly matters. Pull up a chair. There’s space for you here.
I’m feeling restless.
A place I’ve been
many times before.
Spring will soon be here.
Maybe that’s why.
Or maybe.
It’s about acceptance.
Or about authenticity.
I love serendipity,
those moments when something appears.
Exactly when you need it.
In my restlessness
I received clarity.
It arrived in a group:
The Art of Awareness.
A visualization revealed a message
about restlessness.
You have been here before.
Sit with it.
In silence.
Stitch your stillness.
And I realized something.
When restlessness arrives,
I begin to question everything.
Gather & Pause.
The things I’m creating.
The directions I’m exploring.
Maybe I will continue.
Maybe I won’t.
But I’m beginning to understand
that questioning
is simply part of the creative process.
Restlessness often appears
when something new
wants to be created.
I saw a small version of this recently
with one of my granddaughters.
She was very excited
about getting guinea pigs.
But what fascinated me most
wasn’t the animals themselves.
It was the creation of their space.
Designing their little home.
Arranging things just right.
Making it welcoming.
The creativity
was in the building.
And now my other granddaughter
has happily become
the caretaker of the guinea pigs.
Which made me smile.
Because sometimes
what we think we want
isn’t really the point.
The spark
was the making.
The imagining.
The creating of something new.
Yesterday, at my half-day retreat, Threads of Color,
I watched something similar unfold.
Watercolor and stitching supplies
spread across the table.
Watercolor painting becoming the base,
stitching slowly adding colour, texture, and mood.
Thread moving quietly
through our hands.
And as we stitched,
people began noticing things.
One woman decided
to leave the darker brushstrokes visible
rather than covering them with stitches.
Another loved the randomness
of seed stitches-
no mistakes.
One participant surprised herself
by stitching sideways,
inspired by plaid.
Someone said
the stitching felt soothing.
Another noticed
she kept trying to cover
what she didn’t like.
She laughed and said
she has struggled with perfectionism.
Her piece began structured.
But slowly
it became more open.
More unplanned.
More authentic.
Creativity has a way
of revealing these things.
Where we try to control.
Where we try to hide.
And where we might allow
something unexpected
to emerge.
Maybe restlessness
is simply the beginning of that.
A quiet signal.
An invitation
to sit with it.
In silence.
And stitch a little stillness
into the day.
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It was so lovely to be a part of this Kathy!!! ❤️