“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart”
William Wordsworth
I like this quote by Wordsworth and I feel that’s what my journaling was like last year when I journaled most days and also filled the a4 notebooks with many drawings. I found that journaling helped me fix my many issues both practically and for my mental health.
The following is a short excerpt from one of my journals last year:
Saturday 5th July 3.24 pm 2025
Today has been a lay day. Just 10 ink drawings on Woolllies bags. A bit of cooking. A few postcards to friends, and washing and soaking my white T-shirts.
For dinner roast veggies salad with cherry tomatoes, rocket, fried mushrooms and fried halloumi cheese and fresh fetta cheese. I think I shall have a lazy morning tomorrow too before Yannick arrives at 12.30. We, shall go shopping including carob balls and coffee in town. Then a beach shoot as planned out.
“For me, writing is a way of thinking. I write in a journal a lot. I’m a very impatient person, so writing and meditation allow me to slow down and watch my mind; they are containers that keep me in place, hold me still.”
Ruth Ozeki
I love this quote and in many ways my mind runs very quickly and my previous journaling and ten drawings a day project and now daily one essay a day project has slowed my mind right down so I live more in the moment. My goal through all these is to find inner equilibrium.
“Vision is connected to equilibrium, so it’s helpful to set your gaze on a fixed spot when your stability is challenged.”
Laird Hamilton
I love this quote about how vision on a fixed spot leads to equilibrium. This is an interesting idea for me as a visual artist seeking inner equilibrium.
In conclusion finding inner equilibrium is connected to exercise, visual art, journaling and essay writing on spiritualism, in art and life for me.
