I do like November for a #gratitude mindset reset. You, too?

Here are some practical, no-nonsense reminders for nurturing a gratitude mindset and making a gratitude practice a habit.

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Had some fun with a recursive Robert Graves poem -- and the Droste effect.

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Decluttering (at the pace of a glacier). I’m having as much trouble getting rid of this old GameBoy Color as I am trashing piles of academic papers and readings from the early nineties.

100-day project is all about contours and some quirky rainbow topography. Two weeks in, and it's got an easy flow to it. A look at week two is in this recent post: illustratedlife.substack.com/p/open-the-gate

Week 8 #illustrateyourweek #illustratedjournal 2025. It’s a grounding process. Anything goes.

Weekly prompts are shared on Sundays.

Drawing my kids on birthday week has become an annual tradition. I wish I had started doing this when they were young.

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I draw on Sunday mornings with a few people via zoom. I usually get a pencil sketch in that I ink later as I start my week in my illustrated journal.

It’s the most human contact I have all week!

Weekly prompts shared on Sundays on Illustrated Life.

#illustrateyourweek #illustratedjournal

Week 6 2025 in #illustratedjournal.

I share #illustrateyourweek prompts each week to help you fill in the spaces—if you like that approach.

#documentyourlife

Saturday ❤️

An hour of drawing with a small group via zoom on sundays … the best human contact of the week. (Pencil sketch to ink later.)

#portraitdrawing #drawingwithfriends

Explaining more in a weekend post, but putting this image here just on the off-chance someone out there is like “me, too” on this day 1. I’m following some unseen thread.

#proust

I drew a series of daily portraits of Substack writers in October. I posted some final thoughts and a look at the full set (of 31 plus a few extra) today. It was a good series to work on.
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#portraitdrawing
#substackwriter
#inktober

I don’t know any of the other people on this graph, but something about a system like this really works for me. Some of us respond to the tracking and the visible progress…and also the awareness there are others. — Tracking outside of nano this year.

#lifewriting

Tracking morning sky this November with quick thumbnails of light outside the window. Definitely dark, cold, and hard to get up!

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#writer
#documentlife

Week 45 in my illustrated journal for this year.

#illustrateyourweek prompts
#art #illustratedjournal