As artists, it serves us to consciously find
windows to the world of wonder -
we must locate places that open the trapdoor in our imagination and allow the breath of greater worlds to enter our too-claustrophobic lives.
Julia Cameron
Dear Creative Friends,

I am writing to you from my new home in Cape Charles. I am allowing myself time to rest and recover from packing up my studio and my home with daily walks on the beach which are proving to be nourishment for both body and soul. I have created more photographs in the past two weeks than in the past six months, and am in awe at the changing face of nature and the constant movement of the water. I can't wait to share this magical spot with you (more about that at the end of this newsletter)! The photos in this newsletter are from within a few minutes walk of my house.

I am so looking forward to meeting again in creative community next month at the St Francis Springs Prayer Center to share one of my favorite creative and intuitive ways of connecting to my soul - the visual journal. There is still space available in this retreat. I will take up to 18 participants. Everyone will have a single room with their own bathroom.

I'll be providing all the materials you need to create your journals (include a book of images created specially for this retreat) and we will be playing and interacting with images, words, color, shape, paint and the labyrinth. I'll also offer a session on using digital apps on your phone to create imagery to use in your journals. All sessions in the retreat are optional and the creative space is open 24 hours a day, so you can choose when you want to play and when you want to rest.

All NC State health regulations will be followed at the retreat center.

And I'm already starting to imagine Retreats here in Cape Charles. I've found a great VRBO over the road from me which has 6 bedrooms and overlooks Chesapeake Bay. The owner only put it on VRBO after I moved here, so I've taken that as a sign that I should offer small intimate retreats there! I plan to offer an all-inclusive Retreat, but if you'd like to gather a couple of friends and rent the VRBO yourself, and let me know if there is a particular workshop you'd like me to offer for a couple of days for your group just let me know, and we will make a plan! Here is a link to the VRBO.
I hope you are making time to connect to your creativity. And I hope to see some of you soon.

Creative blessings,
Catherine
So often we try to gird ourselves to face a harsh and difficult world
when we might instead gentle both ourselves and our world
just by slowing down.
Julia Cameron
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