THE SUNDAY BOOK
a once-a-month newsletter
This past December, as Advent days passed, I was feeling incredibly frustrated and stuck. I needed to finally confront my creative energies and desires. To find ways to give myself fully as a mother and wife, but also create some space to paint and write and curate things. And so in this new year, 2022, amidst much anxiety and indecision, I took some steps to more tangibly make some changes, and really attempt to develop a rhythm of life that would allow me to try and live out the various parts of myself: mother, wife, artist, curator, maker.
And so it is in that new rhythm that I return here to Commonplace Living's Sunday Book newsletter. I've been thinking a lot about motherhood and creativity and art making over the last few weeks, and also reimagining what this space can be, both the Sunday Book and Commonplace Living more generally. My hope is that, with all of you, we can continue the original aim, to cultivate that disposition towards being in the world: to find the wonder, the beauty, the glory in the everyday, in the ordinary, in the mundane.
So what’s new?
Firstly, a continuation of the "living and breathing commonplace book" (the blog) on the website, which will be the home to a repository of curiosities, a place to capture and look back on the wonders that we encounter everyday: paintings, quotes, book recommendations, poems, photographs, reflections.
Secondly, I hope to share more of my creative work, to bring you in on that process, here as part of the Commonplace Living community.
And thirdly, I'll soon be launching The Commons: A Communal Gallery Space. This will be a space to highlight the work of makers and thinkers who cultivate the ethos of Commonplace Living in their making. A space to bring them together and highlight their work, like the salons and galleries of old.
So I'm excited to join with you in pursuing these everyday wonders, looking for the strokes of glory in the little things, in the beautiful things, but also endeavor to find them in the stressful and difficult things too. And to do this with the help of this living conversation made up of words and strokes of paint and stories.
