Was not able to keep my posting up BUT DID manage to actually do some kind of entry every day. Very proud of myself!
I want to do a post with an overview of my thinking about this year's challenge, but I'll say now that I had a fantastic experience. I was amazed at how the journal developed and how it seemed so natural. I LOVED feeling like I was keeping an actual visual journal with the details of my life without a boring list of "I did… blah blah".
This was definitely a challenge on some days, but I kept thinking about not being too precious about what I chose to sketch and just looking around with open eyes. Being out of town for a bit in the middle also helped shake me up, and forced me to simply. Even writing the text (which is boring and unimaginative) was helpful because it also cleared out my own rambling thoughts. I simply cannot overstate how helpful this exercise was. SInce the end of the month I decided to continue with a similar format in a 'real' journal. That has been it's own challenge. But not for here and not for now. More soon.
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