Let Your Heart Spill Across the Page

And hug someone too

My dear friend,

Last night, a sweet family friend, a true gentleman passed away. As I sit here writing to you, I can hear his voice and his laughter full of good humor. His bright smile was a reflection of his warm heart. A wonderful friend to my Dad and my family, he was good fun and a whole lot of joy. When he and my Dad took my kiddos golfing, there were such great stories to tell after and when we’d attend dances, he was always fun to chat with and take a spin across the dance floor. My heart goes out to his beautiful family. We are all left with such wonderful stories; his loss will be deeply felt.

In moments like this when the world is on a rollercoaster ride and my own life is navigating some tender, challenging moments, I create. In order to process thoughts and feelings, I’ve been spending quite a bit of time in both my sketchbook and my journal writing stories, capturing moments, allowing thoughts and feeling to spill across the page. In my sketchbook, I’ve been drawing and playing with watercolor. I find its the only way make sense of things and maybe there isn’t any sense to be made, maybe you just create space to learn from hard things or amazing things on the pages. You can lay it all down - words and the things that have no words - and look at it, flip it over, explore it; you can turn it into an updated map of your heart.

So today, I invite you to let things spill across the page - words, colors, stories, all of it. Write it down. Paint it. Draw it. Photograph it. Capture this precious life you are living and the stories of those who touch your life all in one space. Then go hug someone you love - hug them tight. The most creative thing we can ever do in this life is love ourselves and others well. So go create space for love and then build, write, paint, draw, make something with it.

Love,

Natasha