Colour Me Happy! – By Brandi Hofer Studios
Find YOUR Soul Sisters! Chatting on the Island LIVE - With Jessa Dupuis, Kylie O-Grady and Susan Salvati!
I had the pleasure of meeting up with these beautiful friends out on Vancouver island in Victoria! Make sure to find and reach out to your community. Because they feed your soul. Soul sisters clicking in a furry of ideas and laughter. What a pleasure. Thank you Susan Salvati for Hosting and Jessa Dupuis (who you can look forward to hearing on the podcast soon), and Kylie O-Grady.
Some of the littlest taught me the most, some of the apparent biggest were really insignificant – Emily Carr
The day before my vacation I was packing in a haste that I tend to move in – with 3 boys keeping me in a constant state of scurry a book on my closet shelf had appeared – almost out of nowhere. Emily Carr’s “This and That” Not really paying it much attention I zipped it in to the outside compartment of my suitcase. For those of you who heard of Emily Carr she is an accomplished Canadian creative. I finally arrive on the sunny stone laid patio of my vacation just outside of Victoria. I open my book and the irony of it all hits me. I am reading this little piece of Emily Carr’s life in the place where she resided. Not at all surprised, shit like this happens on a good ol’ regular (once you regard the universe as your playmate, nothing at all seems a mere coincidence anymore). Picking up this book before I left like it was meant for me. Her (my mother, as it was her book, I could hear her laughter as I read it) last advice for me this: you are in charge of your own destiny, and trust in the rest. Admittedly, I was downright ready for this vacation but seemed unable to let go of the hustle and bustle of attempting to balance motherhood and a creative career. Blinded constantly by this woulds, coulds and shoulds and not able to see what was hitting me right in my steal plated noggin. Until my final days, my mind met up with my body again. And everything came back into focus, allowing me to see through my rose coloured glasses once more. On my morning run on the 7th day I stopped to notice the berry bushes (that I hadn’t noticed the first few times) they were ripe with blackberries. I slowed to a walk, every few feet plucking more fruit with each step. Relishing in the sweet treats, that if you chose the right on was sweet and juicy and tasted laced with vanilla. But if I wasn’t paying attention I would get barbed by the jacked barbs on the branches. Rewarded when paying close attention to a moment: the sweet vanilla bursting in your mouth when you stop, slow down and pay attention - pluck a good one it comes off – easily, as if that was the way that life was supposed to be and everything is right in the world. If we slow down to breath, take in what is right in front of us, not behind, not in the future (both beyond our control) right here, right how, the this’ and that’s.
If we slow down to breath, take in what is right in front of us, not behind, not in the future (both beyond our control) right here, right how, the this’ and that’s.
Knowing that all the bits and pieces of a day, the most insignificant and Emily points out, are the most extraordinary.
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Brandi
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