Life is gloriously messy, its achingly beautiful, it shatters your heart and uplifts you so that your brimming with joy. Somedays its like Melbourne weather all seasons in one day.

From Yogic practices to my own made up practice, dont you agree that having some sort of part of the day for YOU, makes a world of difference and makes a difference to your world 🌏

Interests, passion projects, aka ‘HOBBIES’! Yes, I’m kinda gently yelling to you about hobbies. I wrote a little about it on Instagram here but I’m going to dive a bit deeper because I don’t know about you but somedays I feel that we really have to hone a craft before we can even dare to call it a hobby.

What are you ‘FOR ’?

What do you LOVE?

What kinds of friends do you like?

Do you like texts or calls? (me, I’m BOTH!)

What values are you down to talk about?

Do your values show up in your day-to-day life?

What do you stand for?

Cute story.

I was talking to my son who is going to work in a US Summer Camp for 3 months. He’s headed to the deep south and the camp he’s a staff member at is a Christian Camp. In alot of his coworkers Instagram Bio’s are quote’s from the bible and emojis. So interesting I thought.

I pulled into the Retirement Village to collect her. In this particular aged care job, I took clients out to Dr’s appointments, shopping, specialist appointments, to parks for coffee, showered them, cooked meals, cleaned. You name it, pretty sure I did it.

There is something about a morning set up or flow that reorganises my soul.

My situ is not complicated.

It’s not a certain set of sequences (well, yes tea first!).

It doesn’t belong to any organisation or instution.

It’s mine.

And its often messy and it changes with the seasons.

But a morning set of things is the most devotional offering I can give myself.

Lately, a new rhythm is what I need as I have a work schedule I need to get organised for.

Also I need to be on the bus by 7.40am. Yep, ungodly really. Anyho.

After a few weeks of not really thinking about my morning, a few of my most fun morning rituals got dropped. I wasn’t even aware, until I started to feel a bit flat. A big meh.

My artist date this week was a trip to the NSW Art Gallery. It was perfect timing as the NSW Art Gallery is so cool, literally the nicest place to be in during this hot stinky summer we are having here in Sydney. And there’s so much art to see, much of it for free.

So you don’t need to suffer during summer, just head to the gallery to soak yourself in the cool air and surround yourself with beauty. Win win.