January Challenge

Watch this before the end of the year!

Dear Imaginary Friend,

The Epistolary has grown. Last week it celebrated it's very first year of existence. I didn't want to make much of a fuss about it, but I did take a moment to think about what I've done, about what we've done, together.

You have listened to me yammer on about stuff that I didn't really think anyone else but me was into.

You have encouraged me to move forward and forced me to get to work even when I didn't feel like it.

You even answered back! Which makes me think that either you're not imaginary or I'm loosing my marbles.

Things have changed a lot since I started this last year. I spent the last months surrounded (virtually) with incredible people while working on The Carbon Almanac and the Connect the Dots project. Today I'm building a Creative Agency that focuses on making the planet better.

Now, I don't know what this epistolary was supposed to be about, and I don't really know what it will move on towards next year. I'm not a writer my friend. I'm not an illustrator either. I'm not even sure I'm an architect. But I do think things and feel stuff and express those into drawings, spaces and words. I send letters and make videos and sing songs.

I won't settle on a niche. I can't promise what's next here. What I will do instead is keep sending you letters this coming year.

I hope you'll be there.

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I have a challenge for you this January. It's the third year in a row I do it and I swear to you, it's the best thing I've done for myself ever. It's very simple:

Every day for the whole month of January, I take one whole hour and sit. I sit with my thoughts and that is all. No closed eyes, no breath-watching, though both can help. No crossed legs and no hand positions, no hummms.

But also, no checking the phone, no fidgeting, no getting up to bake a tiramisu. Just sitting with your thoughts.

Any thoughts.

And I tell you, there is a limited amount of grocery lists and organizing you can think about. Around the 40 minute mark, your mind starts going deeper and deeper and if you're lucky, once in a while it will unknot a knot you've been unknowingly avoiding. Just because you sat with it. Powerful magic baby.

If you need an accountability buddy, reach out. Either way, I hope you take the challenge. I wish you a purposeful 2023.

Love as always,

Jo