Hi. This totally candid, natural photo of me casually wearing headphones in the garden is to share with you that the second episode of my solo monthly podcast, Notes to Self, is out now ✨

In addition to sharing the notes I’ve written to myself for September, this 15 minute episode includes companion provocations, rooted in memory, the senses, and courage. I hope they might each be a little door for you and your imagination. Kind of like a choose your own adventure map that you can take inwards. You might like to use them as a walking meditation, or maybe just thoughts to carry and hold or let go of. Maybe after each one you pause the episode. Maybe you let your body answer first. However they land with you, I hope these provocations might help you to stay by your own side.

The genesis of this podcast are the notes that I’ve been jotting down for several years now, at the beginning of every new month. I do this kind of like the post-its that I write and leave in a book I love, on the pages that I don’t want to forget. But in this case, of course, the book is my creative life. My hope in sharing my notes to self is that they might offer any resonance or support to your creative life too.

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Thanks for being here.

With a light left on,

Holly

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