Big changes are afoot. Or aloft — if you prefer a flying metaphor.
These changes are vulnerable to share, especially since I am smack in the middle of them.

My Happy Place: at Art House Oaxaca in Mexico, with happy dog tails.
I’ve just spent the most deeply nourishing creative week in a circle of wise and wild women, writing and making art at my retreat space here in Oaxaca, Mexico.
At the retreat, I facilitated a creating art journaling process called The Wisdom Journal. Here, we leap into wordlessness (after morning creative writing sessions) and allow our intuition and imagination to reveal itself with color, image, phrases and words clipped from magazines, and all manner of luscious collage supplies.
Our wisdom journals contain layers and multitudes, secret doorways and hidden envelopes to store treasures, maps… treasure maps to our most cherished dreams, ideas, destinies.
September 25th is my birthday, and each year I create a wisdom journal that asks potent questions like:
How can I best express my true creative self in the next year?
What wisdom do you have for me?
For over a year now, I’ve been exploring where to move next when my time here in Mexico draws to a close.
Concrete ideas and plans are starting to form, a timeline is taking shape. So I asked my Wisdom Journal for guidance about this move.
It’s going to be another BigAss Move, like the one I made from the USA to Mexico back in 2012, only in reverse.
My friend and co-facilitator of the Wiser & Wilder retreats, Emily, reminded me that I am completing a 7 year Saturn cycle. (Emily is an astrologer and somehow has my birth chart in her brain for quick reference.)
What’s hard for me to say (write) out loud:
My time in Oaxaca, Mexico is drawing to a close.
During the retreat, I practiced writing and sharing these ideas out loud.
I’ve written and rewritten this post so many times.
Hesitate to press: Publish.
Words set in stone, or something like that.
More than anything, I am reminded how powerful and enriching it is to have people you can tell your deepest, most sacred dreams. The women in the Wiser & Wilder retreat gave me this gift. Best birthday present, ever.
It is a gift to have people who hear you and care enough to draw out more of your wisdom — by asking another potent question, like: Tell me more. (Thank you, Meo, for that question.)
New Beginnings is a big subject. In fact, it’s our theme for Magic Book this month.
There is so much more to share.
Stay tuned.
Thank you for reading, listening and sharing.
6 comments
Bravissima, Lisa! I want to underscore the generosity and inspiration of the Wiser and Wilder retreat last week–a privilege to have been part of it. Mil gracias to you and Emily and my sister-women-participants! Also, to champion the incredible opportunity, in the wind, for Art House Oaxaca to be claimed and further imagined by another Creative Genius (or collaborative group), when you leave Oaxaca. The palette of possibilities is enormous, given the amazing foundation of comforts, beauty, and art making space you’ve already established. Big blessing wishes for this potent time of transformation!
ooh…
I just love that phrasing…
I am still so energized from our Wiser & Wilder week together (a week today it’s been since it ended!).
It was such a welcome surprise to get so much clarity myself on creative next steps. I know that happens for the participants… but I forget that it also happens for me!
I’ve been watching your journey from afar all these years, Lisa, and you never cease to surprise and inspire me. Can’t wait to see where you land next!
I can’t wait to see where I land, too, Debra!
There is a nice spaciousness of time to this next adventure, with many exploratory trips planned in the USA.
Thanks so much for reading and being a part of my journey!
WTF….LMAO……
Hello beautiful 🙂
Yes change is good.
I’ve known you for more years than I can say but each chapter you write is more exciting, full of growth and creativity.
All the best on your next adventure.
An infinite amount of Love and support to you my friend
XOXO…..
Aw… Ken, thank you!
You can say… I’ve known you since you were 19 (!). Which is… a long time!
I appreciate you. Now… get your ass down to Mexico before I leave.