Valentangle - Healing the Heart through Zentangle

The days are brightening and so too are our spirits!  It hit me this week that while my body had easily (well sort of) moved back to BC, my heart was taking it's sweet time to catch up and needed validation and acknowledgement of all the changes it has endured these past two years. Most of all it needed time to relax and get used to things.  So, over the holidays,  I did a lot of tangling, reading and lounging about in my new surroundings to give my heart quiet space to recover.

Funny how we get attached to places and circumstances and we don't even really know it until we leave. I remember moving from Alberta to Toronto years ago as an adventure and being especially homesick for my tribe of people and as a surprise to me.....wilderness.  I missed the wildness of my surroundings, and now have some of that very wildness in my back yard. 

Before we decided to move to Lumby, BC, from Washington state;  I did a mixed media piece of a personal map, pictured above.  I found it in my archives this week and it was a good reminder of how I was feeling at that time.... as if I were straddling a border. A border of two countries, of two social circles, of two cultures and it was leaving a hole in my heart.   I had the feeling of being pulled in two directions for too long.  

So now I have been granted the opportunity to fill my heart with family, friends, wildness and of course Art! To celebrate I am teaching a special Zentangle Class called Valentangle on Saturday February 10th in Lumby to help fill your heart and mine. Just click on over to the Classes and Workshops tab and sign up and pay online, it's that easy!

"Anything, everything, little or big becomes an adventure when the right person shares it."
- Kathleen Norris