Last week I went to Mississippi for The Ezra Jack Keat’s Award Celebration. I tend to have lots of notebooks, some devoted to certain ideas and others just for anything, a mix of writing and doodles or sketches. They are just hanging about and before I left to go to Mississippi I just grabbed one that looked mostly empty. I actually didn’t even open it until right before I was headed to the airport to return home. I was sitting outside and thought I would write a little. Well, I opened my notebook randomly to any page and haaaaa there was this sketch which I had no idea was in here. Something I drew over a year and half ago. Erno Rubik cube head out for a walk. This made me smile and felt like a full circle or CUBE moment.

creative process notebooks

Desire…

almost spring, almost at that place where

The making of this spread was definitely a journey.

1. Discovered this Alan Watts Being in the Way podcast. While listening I picked up on the saying Ji-Ji-Mu-Ge. What it means I can't actually articulate quite yet, still learning that. But I do like saying it

It reminds me that I will forget, this way of being, this creative place. And also I will remember. For me this is a constant pattern.