cycles and comparison

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men,—that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense … -Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

owning my story as a path to acceptance + cease looking for a way out; if I am looking for a way out, what is the real issue?

reality check: knowing you are an original and your way is your way and may not be affirmed by people

There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

Art for Day 11

During the month of November I will be posting glimpses of my art every day …

I prepped a new gluebook for this month’s art. If you would like to see visual tutorials and read more about glue-booking, click here.

P.S. Use hashtag #tajgluebook on Instagram to connect with other women who use glue-booking as means of art journaling.

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