Friday Brainstorm

Friday is my new day for creative thinking and doing; as Grandma Earth Teacher I am led to make things that are a gift to the Earth in some way, sustainable, and with a message. Also, I need to prepare for the next week of after-school time: A calm flow with some repeatable fun learning and ongoing fall projects.

This is the time of the waning crescent "balsamic moon" - the final yin phase, a pause that marks the end point in this cycle. Now we can ease off a bit on actively pursuing goals, slow down, go within, and attend to inner work, renewal, and self-care.

Agenda:

1. Brainstorm for next moon

2. Projects for the week

1. Brainstorm for next moon:

Every month after the third quarter moon, I take some days to be quiet and contemplative and prepare for the next phase of my life. At the new moon on Saturday I will transition from one focus to another, and a whole new field of opportunity. This week I've taken time to review, and write down my goals, dreams, and exciting ideas for the next 30-days in my priorities. 

My next theme is Synergy and Restraint:

• Self: Inner synergy, peace, renunciation, simplicity, kindness
• Learning: Finish books: My Heart, Tiny Habits, Anger, Risk (authenticity) + Introversion book
• Social: Anger and calm journal, problem solving plans
• Family: Halloween pockets and decorations; continue to learn and understand about neurodiversity
• Service: Clerking- learn names, plan and lead a clerk gathering
• Writing: Fall themes - Indigenous People's Day; wild garden; preserving food; bee care; preparing for winter
• Art: EC retreat project; Bird illustrations and better photos for my book; start Christmas sewing
• Teaching: Reading, drawing, birds, bat cave, and Halloween Fun
• Earthcare: QEW gathering + EC retreat! Climate cafe plans, new theme, new trifold; Integrity with IFEK calendar; culmination of ECEF.
• Garden: Fall planting and clean up
• Home: Continue deep clearing; finish house painting the front; finish railing and canvas roof; Bathroom door project.

2. Projects for the week:

The projects I see as priorities now are:

1. For my substack: Better photos and watercolor illustrations
2. Craftivism and nature projects: EC leaves, new trifold
3. House and practical fix-it projects: Hall doors
4. Sharing skill and fall projects
5. Christmas gifts: Sewing, painting

Art project steps:

• F: Jet pack
• Sat: Jet pack + Bathroom door
• Sun: Cut fall leaves
• M: Color and fold leaves
• T: Watercolor birds + Grave stone
• W: Watercolor birds + Grave stone
• Th: Start sewing project + ofrenda

Kid Projects:

• F: Aldo day: Bat cave painting
• T: Artie Day: Nature walk + Gravestone
• W: Aldo Day: Gravestone
• Th: Both Boys Day: Bones books, Ofrenda 
• F: Aldo day: Make a skeleton?