ReFrame – Page 2 – Telling Stories

What if

June 3, 2016June 3, 2016Posted in contemplative photography, Photo Journal, ReFrameLeave a comment

You had an entire weekend to yourself—from Friday evening until Sunday morning?
You could focus on nothing but your photography?
You could wander around with that camera and look for and find the “extraordinary” in the world around you?
You could put aside all judgment and expectations and receive and make the photographic images YOU want to make?
You could allow yourself to see what is and not what should be?
You could connect with other women photographers for a weekend of sharing and learning and making “art?
Would you allow yourself to see with the eyes of your heart?
Would you allow yourself

For a couple of years, I have been reading and studying and practicing “contemplative photography.” Contemplative photography is not a technique or a “system.” It’s a practice; it’s a way of seeing.It’s not a “style” exactly, either, although there are some tell-tale signs that a photographer may or may not practice contemplative photography.

If you are a photographer and you want to spend a weekend in a beautiful setting with like-minded photographers, you may be interested in the Contemplative Photography Retreat. It is still in the planning stages, but it’s coming. It’s been in a five-year gestational period, but it is about to be born.

As the cliché goes, more details to come later in the news.

Walking around the Pond

May 9, 2016Posted in contemplative photography, Photo Journal, ReFrameTagged beauty, John Keats, walking in the world, wildflowersLeave a comment

I’ve walked around those seven ponds so many times over the last 32 years that I may be able to do it with my eyes closed. Not that I will, though, because I just might fall in the ponds, and I don’t want to do that again! Once is enough!

But I don’t take those walks “blindly” or casually, either. There is always something new to see—new growth, new beauty. Today was no different. I decided I had to get out of the house for some “vitamin D therapy,” some sunshine. I refilled the bird feeders and put up the new one that Sherry and Aaron gave me for Mother’s Day. By the way, the birds have flocked to the feeders! They must like the new arrangement and the new bird seed! Then I grabbed the camera and went for the walk.

I’m not sure what smells better, the heavy perfume of roses or the sweetness of honeysuckle. Both scents were evident this morning.

I remember picking honeysuckle flowers and licking the nectar. Maybe I will do that one day soon.

Wildflowers are abundant now—dandelions and other flowers. I know, some people may call them weeds, but they are beautiful.

Mr. Leon was plowing the field by one of the ponds. I love the smell of freshly plowed earth. I wonder how long this area will continue to be “rural” and agricultural. It seems that this way of life is going away.

Sometimes nature surprises me. I didn’t see the squares on these “berries” until I went through the images in Lightroom.

I wish I knew the names of plants better than I do. I discovered today that these little beauties are Robin’s plantain, one of the fleabanes that grow in the Eastern states.

But I don’t know what this pretty purple flower is

Nor do I know what these bell-shaped flowers are.

Maybe I don’t need to know, though. John Keats once wrote,

‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all

Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.’ (“Ode on a Grecian Urn”).

Perhaps he is right.

A Day of “Arting”

May 4, 2016Posted in contemplative photography, Photo Journal, ReFrameTagged art, birds, cardinal, Lightroom, nature, photoediting, Photoshop, post-processingLeave a comment

Yesterday, I saw a shrub of some sort waving its white branches at me. I had to fill the bird feeders anyway, so I grabbed the camera and went out for a quick photo shoot. After asking on Facebook for an identification, I found out that it is privet hedge. It is beautiful and smells heavenly. I started with this image:

I applied a texture layer and used Topaz Simplify 4 to apply the “impressionist” effect, and ended with this:

I like this image. But I wasn’t done playing with the images I received yesterday. A lone male cardinal visited the feeders after I filled them. I really did not have the best lens on my camera to get this shot, but I had to try. Cardinals do not like to pose for photographs, and I was hasty. My original image was underexposed, but with a little Lightroom magic, I was able to recover enough details to work with the image. In addition, the background is busy and distracting, and I really had to work with the background to get something I was pleased with.

I cropped the image to a square. Then I used some techniques from Susan Tuttle’s book Digital Expressions to desaturate the background while keeping the color of the subject (the cardinal) and creating a vignette with a color fill layer. This is the result:

I wasn’t quite satisfied, so I played a little more. I added a texture overlay in vivid light mode and the spot light effect from the filter|Render menu in CS6. After playing a bit with opacity, I ended with this:

There is a Native American legend that says that cardinals are visitors from heaven. I suppose this little bird is such a visitor.

Connecting through the Disconnect

April 29, 2016Posted in ReFrameLeave a comment

Yesterday, I wrote about feeling disconnected—from just about everything. And when I feel this way, I do what comes naturally to me: I hide, usually behind the pages of a book, or in my case now (due to limited storage/stashing placed) behind the screen of my Kindle. This morning, though, I feel a bit better. What I did, though, to help me was to make a plan to reconnect with some practices that have grounded me in the past.

Daily Morning Pages: This is nothing new. Julia Cameron writes about morning pages and their benefits for creative people in her books, especially The Artist’s Way and Walking in This World. There are so many benefits for keeping some kind of journal: developing IQ, managing emotions, healing, learning to use language, engaging creativity, among others (“10 Surprising Benefits You’ll Get From Keeping a Journal,”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thai-nguyen/benefits-of-journaling-_b_6648884.html)

Daily Spiritual Practice: For me, this means spending time reading and listening to God’s word from the Scriptures and spending time in prayer. Again, as there are benefits from daily journal writing, there are benefits from some kind of spiritual practice: grounding in times of emotional upheaval; clarity; mindfulness.

Creating/Being Creative: Notice I didn’t say being “artistic.” I like to play with paint and colored pencils, charcoal, graphite drawing pencils, paper, and photography, especially in Photoshop, but what I do hardly qualifies as “fine art.” But it’s fun. I’m sure I can research those benefits as well. But when I get out the crayons and colored pencils and the markers and, yes, the coloring books, I feel like I am playing again, and some of the stresses go away.

Photography: This is an area where I have lost touch. Oh, I’ve been taking pictures of something nearly every week for the last five or six weeks. I drag that “Big Girl Camera” (the Canon 7D) EVERYWHERE. But recently, I have felt disconnected with it. So, my intent is to return to the concept of contemplative photography, of using the camera to record what strikes me as important at that moment. It might be just the color of a flower, and I will fill the frame with only color, or it might be the detail of grain in a slab of wood. Have you ever really paid attention to the cross section of a tree—those amazing rings and the variations of color?

Going for a Walk: I can truly say that sometimes I don’t go outside at all, and when I don’t, I don’t feel “right.” Even thirty minutes is long enough. Nature is a manifestation of God’s creative presence in the world, the generative and creative presence, and there I feel close to Him.

So, these are my practices that I will work on this coming week to reconnect with myself and the world around me.

Currently. . . .

April 21, 2016Posted in ReFrameTagged Anne Hillerman, everyday, life, photography, reading, Rick SammonLeave a comment

What have you been doing recently?

I have been keeping a variety of journals recently. I began last November with the No More Excuses art journal. To do this, you do a few things, some daily, and some weekly: draw the weather, color a block with a color of the day, and write a word of the day. I do the weather and the color, usually based on my mood or whatever color strikes my fancy. I’ve added my own element to the day’s work. For the month of April, I am drawing and coloring a flower a day.

Then the Documented Life Unplanner 2016 project came along, and I am adding elements of that to the art journal. At the same time, I discovered Teresa Robinson’s Right Brain Planner and glue booking. Then just a month ago, I found Fauxbonichi journaling, which is similar to art journaling and DLP and RBP, but focuses more on the words rather than the art, although art and creativity are a part of the fauxbonichi journlaing. By the way, there is a Facebook group for Fauxbonichi journalers that is just full of inspiration. In the latter journal, I have been keeping a list of “current” things, everything from my “to do’s” and “necessaries” to the things I eat during the day, and things I’ve accomplished for the day. This week, I am doing a “Currently” list.

This is what I have so far:

Currently,

I’m reading,

Rock with Wings by Anne Hillerman, daughter of Tony Hillerman, who wrote a series of novels about Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, Navajo policemen in New Mexico.
This book is evocative of the American Southwest. Hillerman, like her father, is knowledgeable of the Southwest and the Navajo people.
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Love, Pray, about living a creative life without fear
Creative Visualization for Photographers by Rick Sammon, about learning to see creatively

I’m learning

how to draw and sketch flowers, how to shade and color
how to create watercolor effects in Photoshop CS6 without using actions

I’m loving

the green-blues, such as teal and turquoise
What is on your “currently” list?

Time and Writing and Art

April 2, 2016Posted in Photo Journal, ReFrameTagged editing, editing tools, Elizabeth Gilbert, photography, post-processing, Rick Sammons2 Comments

It’s been nearly a month since my last entry here. I have these “spells” when writing calls to me and I ignore the call. I’ve been doing that lately—ignoring the class. Oh, I’ve been writing—in my morning pages journal, in my art journal/documented life unplanner/right-brain planner, fauxbonichi journal—Oh, yes, I am writing. Just not here in this space. Just not for publication.

I have been reading a lot. I’m several chapters into Elizabeth Gilbert’s book, Big Magic. I have to thank my friend Mary for loaning me her book. Unfortunately, because she loaned it to me, I can’t mark it up! So, I bought my own Kindle edition so that I could highlight, underline, and comment. Oh, yes, I am writing quotes in my journals/planners/sticky notes, too.

And I’m reading one of Rick Sammons’ photography books on seeing creatively. I am reminded throughout the book that photography is more than settings on the camera and pressing a shutter button. It is about seeing the world, not merely glancing around, but looking deeply, and seeing what is not always obvious. I liked his analogy of using a shot-gun approach to photography versus a more considered approach. Sometimes, when we go out to photograph things, we take pictures of EVERYTHING in sight—aim and shoot! However, Sammons reminds me that while it’s okay to take the postcard pictures and attempt to capture everything, we also need to take the time to look closely, to see what “we” see and not what we’re necessarily expected to see.

The other aspect of Sammons’ book that I appreciate is that photography, especially digital photography, is not just about getting it right in the camera, but also about seeing our creative vision through in the post-processing stage. In most of the chapters, Sammons writes about some of the creative tools he uses—Lightroom, Photoshop, Topaz plug-ins, Nik software. . . .

Last night, I played with some of those tools on images I took last weekend. And I played with layering textures and photo veils and other tools in my tool kit. I came up with this image of the dogwood. I think I like it. I like it very much.

This is the original (SOOC), and I like it, too.

I am trying to salvage this image of the heron that Mama and I saw while we were at Bennetts Point three weeks ago. It landed in the pasture next to our place there. I was not dressed to go outside to get a closer shot, and I had to shoot fast! I think those birds know when I’m coming with a camera and they are camera shy.

This is the original. Trust me, it’s a heron!

I cropped it, “fuzzed up” the grass a bit with a Topaz plug-in, and added several layers of textures, brushing each layer off the heron. This is the result.

It does have a painterly look, and I like that. I like the softness of the background, but it’s still missing something, and I will come back to it again to see what I need to do.

Vision, creativity, writing, reading—it’s all part of what I want to do.

O Wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

March 11, 2016Posted in contemplative photography, Photo Journal, ReFrameTagged Dreher Island, literature, nature, Romantic poetry, seasons, Shelley, spring, visual poetryLeave a comment

Anyone who knows me, knows that my received my Masters degree in English literature, specializing in the literature of the nineteenth century. I love my Romantic poets—Keats, Shelley, Byron, Wordsworth, Coleridge, the Pre-Raphaelites, the Brontes. . . . . The more Gothic, the better!

When I am walking and looking for images to receive in my camera, I tend to think in terms of poetry, especially metaphor and symbolism, mood, setting. Those elements speak to me somehow, and at times, I do think that photography is, as Chris Orwig says, “visual poetry.”

This winter has been gloomy—cloudy, rainy, wet. More often than not, I’ve been kept indoors by the rain than by the cold. In terms of temperature, it’s been a mild winter. Just WET!

But lately, I’m seeing signs of spring. I went for a walk through Dreher Island State Park yesterday as well as through my backyard. Shelley had it right. When there is winter, spring is not far behind.

Here is Shelley’s complete poem:

Ode to the West Wind

Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792 – 1822

I

O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being,
Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead
Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,

Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red,
Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou,
Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed

The wingèd seeds, where they lie cold and low,
Each like a corpse within its grave, until
Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow

Her clarion o’er the dreaming earth, and fill
(Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air)
With living hues and odours plain and hill:

Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;
Destroyer and Preserver; hear, O hear!

II

Thou on whose stream, ‘mid the steep sky’s commotion,
Loose clouds like Earth’s decaying leaves are shed,
Shook from the tangled boughs of Heaven and Ocean,

Angels of rain and lightning: there are spread
On the blue surface of thine airy surge,
Like the bright hair uplifted from the head

Of some fierce Maenad, even from the dim verge
Of the horizon to the zenith’s height,
The locks of the approaching storm. Thou dirge

Of the dying year, to which this closing night
Will be the dome of a vast sepulchre
Vaulted with all thy congregated might

Of vapours, from whose solid atmosphere
Black rain, and fire, and hail will burst: O hear!

III

Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams
The blue Mediterranean, where he lay,
Lulled by the coil of his crystalline streams,

Beside a pumice isle in Baiae’s bay,
And saw in sleep old palaces and towers
Quivering within the wave’s intenser day,

All overgrown with azure moss and flowers
So sweet, the sense faints picturing them! Thou
For whose path the Atlantic’s level powers

Cleave themselves into chasms, while far below
The sea-blooms and the oozy woods which wear
The sapless foliage of the ocean, know

Thy voice, and suddenly grow grey with fear,
And tremble and despoil themselves: O hear!

IV

If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear;
If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee;
A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share

The impulse of thy strength, only less free
Than thou, O Uncontrollable! If even
I were as in my boyhood, and could be

The comrade of thy wanderings over Heaven,
As then, when to outstrip thy skiey speed
Scarce seemed a vision; I would ne’er have striven

As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need.
Oh! lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!
I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!

A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed
One too like thee: tameless, and swift, and proud.

V

Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is:
What if my leaves are falling like its own!
The tumult of thy mighty harmonies

Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone,
Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce,
My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one!

Drive my dead thoughts over the universe
Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth!
And, by the incantation of this verse,

Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth
Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind!
Be through my lips to unawakened Earth

The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

This poem is in the public domain.

Experiencing Doubts

March 10, 2016Posted in contemplative photography, Photo Journal, ReFrameTagged doubt, Lynch's Woods, mindfulness, overcoming doubt, photography, springLeave a comment

I have been absent from writing regular posts—again. I think I wrote last week, but it has been more than a month since I’ve posted regularly. I doubted I had much to say. And I doubted myself as an artist. My work is kind of dull compared to others.

Yesterday and this morning, I think I know why I am in such a state of doubt. I spent an evening looking through a truly beautiful magazine, Digital Studio, published by Stampington and Co. It is a gorgeous magazine. I love their publications, Somerset Studio, Somerset Life, Art Journaling . I could spend a small fortune on subscriptions alone! Then I begin to compare my work to what I see, and I tell myself that I don’t measure up. And then I doubt myself.

I am working on shaking that mode. A wise friend told me yesterday that I should remember that my photography is for me and me alone and that I should not be concerned that others “don’t get it.” You know, that image that speaks only to me, like this one.

It is a perfect pinecone, for heaven’s sake. And it’s attached to the branch on which it grew, and there are still green needles at the end. And I could not resist taking the image. Beauty. To me. And a little bit of “apartness” and separation and perhaps “aloneness.” (Okay, I’m taking a page from Shakespeare: if he can make up works like fantastical, then why can’t I?)

And there are details to notice in the world, like this:

Again it’s only a holly berry lying on the brown earth, but it’s a spot of unexpected color. So, I received this tiny moment as that point of unexpectedness, recorded it, and moved on.

We walked by the creek/stream that runs through Lynch’s Woods yesterday. I admit that I am a “water person,” drawn to water and can abide by water. And I noticed more details—rocks, water, algae, texture.

I listened to my wise friend’s advice and recorded the images that spoke to me. Near the end of the walk, we both spotted some lichen growing on the tree trunk:

Do you see it? There is a heart. And Madre Julie wrote to me on Facebook and said, “There is Love.” Someone understood. . . .

Tomorrow, I may face the demon doubt again and wonder if anyone understands what I’m trying to say through my art of photography. But for today, I will be content and know that at least one image has spoken and someone else “gets it.”

I will leave you with one more image of the blossoming of spring (and hope):

One Little Word and Resistance

January 16, 2016Posted in ReFrameLeave a comment

How are you doing with your one little word so far?

This week, I have resisted my word. Even more, I am resenting my word. Maybe that’s why I need my word.

Simple Definition of resistance

: refusal to accept something new or different

: effort made to stop or to fight against someone or something
: the ability to prevent something from having an effect
I’m not sure you can call what I am doing a refusal to accept something new or different, but I am fighting against it.
I think it’s okay to resist the one word in the beginning. It takes time for the word to take effect. It’s hard to “settle in” to all that the word embraces and implies.
So if you are resisting the word, follow that resistance for a bit. It might be revealing.
One of my “routines” for several years has been to engage in morning devotions and Bible study. It is one of the ways that I abide with the word of God. It’s important to me to know what God says to me and live in that word. This week, I have resisted that abiding. In fact, thought I continued to abide in my morning prayer time, I resisted opening the book. Maybe it’s because I have been reading the book of Job, one of the most depressing books in the Bible but only hopeful until the end. I mean, how long can I put up with Job complaining about his lot in life? And yes, he does complain! Oh, I know it’s not his fault. I know that this is really an allegory or parable of sorts. It’s a literary work more than a literal narrative. But still!
Obviously, I have been abiding with the first several chapters of Job. See how that word sneaks up on you? So, if you find that you are resisting your word and maybe resenting it a bit, just let it happen. Resist. Ponder, Resent. Than re-examine.

The Book of Days: An Art Journal Approach to Planning and Documenting Life

January 11, 2016Posted in Photo Journal, ReFrameTagged art journal, book of days, plannersLeave a comment

I think it’s because I am a teacher and learned a long time ago that I needed to “plan.” I have to admit, though, that linear planning and step-by-step planning is not easy for me. I know what I need to do to accomplish a task, whether it’s writing a lesson plan for myself or for the substitute, or making a grocery list or organizing my “to-do” list for the day. But somehow, I get stuck. It doesn’t always work to my advantage. Yet, I know I need some kind of way to keep up with those things as well as to keep up with appointments and other events. There are times when I call my planners my “brain.”

I turned into a scrapbooker some seven or eight years ago. Since my boys are grown, I have not kept up with it, and in fact, I have to admit that I have not scrapbooked a layout for a couple of years I miss being creative that way. But one kind of project I’ve tried off and on is the “Book of Days,” a kind of informal scrapbook of snips and snaps and bits and bobs of everyday. Then I sort of dropped out of that project; life got in the way.

This year, I have returned to the idea of the book of days, but I also discovered a different way of planning and recording day-to-day life: art journals and creative planners. First, I discovered the “No Excuses Art” website and the daily approach to art journaling. I thought, “I can do that.” The idea is to take ten minutes or so a day and create a daily entry, using some sort of day planner. I bought an inexpensive week-at-a-glance planner from WalMart and jumped right in. Each day, I do these things: choose a color of the day and a word to describe my mood or feeling or motivation, and draw the weather. Once I get these ideas down, then I bring out the paints, either watercolor or acrylic, and I add color to the day. If there are any “events” or “marching orders,” I write those in, too. That’s the absolute minimum. It’s not much, bur it’s a little bit of art.

Another way I am using my planner is to keep my word of the year/month and the theme for the month in the forefront. My word this year is “abide.” I am still feeling my way around that word, and my word for January is “emerge.” The theme of the Documented Life Project for January is “Going Out on a Limb: Trying Something New,” and this art-journal approach to planning is certainly something new for me.

I’ve added things to my planner, too, such as envelopes to hold ephemera of all sorts, including feathers that I may find while walking outside, photographs I want to hold on to, things I’ve cut out from magazines, postcards—you name it, it goes in an envelope. I taped these envelopes into the planner with washi tape. I add tip-in pages taped to the edge of the page. I may print out a photobooth strip of photographs that I’ve taken that week and tape it as a tip in. I’ve also added additional pages for notes, drawings, doodles, and other attempts at “art.” It’s only January, and already my planner is thick and bulky, and I love it.

Now, the question is: is this making planning any easier? Not really. I think I will always resist the linear aspect of planning. However, this approach to keeping a planner is a little like keeping a diary of day-to-day activities. At some point, I can go back to my book of days and see what I’ve done, where I’ve been, and what was important to me at the time. When I return to more formal scrapbooking, I will have some kind of “record” that I can use to find material for the scrapbook layouts.

In a way, the book of days becomes a kind of scrapbook on its own. There are many scrappers who believe that everything should be acid-free and archival quality. For this project, I am not at all concerned about those things. I don’t anticipate this project “lasting” for very long, historically speaking. And if it does last, I’ll let my posterity worry about conserving it! This project is solely for me. And for now, I am enjoying it.

SUPPLIES:

some kind of day planner (I’m using the PlanAhead planner with the really big print!)
watercolor and/or acrylic paints
colored pencils
markers
journaling pens
glue sticks (I like the giant sized Elmer’s Craft Glue stick)
images, photographs, words cut from magazines, old books, newspapers, etc.
ephemera (ticket stubs, receipts, napkins, the sleeve from a disposal coffee cup from the coffee shop, etc.)
photographs
scotch tape
envelopes
tags
tabs to mark pages
scrapbook patterned paper and card stock
embellishments of all sorts
stamps and stamp pads
washi tape
stickers

Some useful websites and other resources:

No Excuses Art Journaling— www.noexcusesart.com This was the first art journal planner I saw. I bought the book No Excuses Art Journaling for my Kindle, and I have been using it as a source for ideas for my book of days. Gina offers a class, but it is pricey at $97.00, but her videos are interesting, and she demonstrates a lot of techniques. I am not sure I would buy the class again (although I believe that I have benefited from it greatly). Some of the classes and websites listed below have similar content for MUCH less or for free.

The Documented Life Project— http://www.arttothe5th.com/journal/2015/11/25/documented-life-project-2016-are-you-ready In order to take advantage of this resource, you have to buy the class, but it is very reasonable ($12.00 for the year). You get fifty-two weekly prompts, plus free downloads for materials to use, admission to a private Facebook group for inspiration, and access to the Art to the 5^th resources. That’s pretty cheap, compared to some other classes I’ve signed up for!

The Right-Brain Planner– http://www.rightbrainplanner.com/ Teresa’s materials are for sale only, but she does have a Facebook group that you can join for inspiration and ideas. She posts frequently on her blog so that you can see how she plans. I have subscribed to her monthly pages (about $8.00 for the booklet of materials), and I get some really good ideas from her.

The Reset Girl– http://christytomlinson.typepad.com/christy_tomlinson_worksho/the-creative-planner-online-class.html Again, this is another online class, but it’s also fairly reasonable in price at $34.95. You get access to tons of videos of instructors who suggest and teach a variety of techniques as well as a list of resources to get supplies or to make your own. The only drawback to the classes and videos offered is that they are tied to a particular style and size of planner. However, I am finding that, as is the case in most things, you can adapt to use your own materials and re-create some of them using what you have without buying more stuff.

Pinterest: Don’t we all love Pinterest! Actually, I have a love-hate relationship with Pinterest. I look at what others have created, and let the ugly comparison bug get me. But there are numerous boards for creative planners. Just do a search for creative planners or art journal planners or some other variation, and you will have more inspiration that you can stand!

http://www.heathergreenwooddesigns.com/2015/05/my-mixed-media-art-worship-faith.html–I have only skimmed this page, which I found through Pinterest. I’m going to take another, closer look and maybe incorporate some of these ideas into my “book of days” as well. It is a Faith planner of sorts with sections for Bible study, prayers, sermon notes, and the like.

https://www.pinterest.com/mambipins/the-happy-plannertm/ I think this is another board I will have to check out.

Levenger– http://www.levenger.com/ I love the Arc notebook system, and I use their products for my school stuff. I even bought TWO of the special hole punchers so that I have one at home and one at school. You can add pages, rearrange pages, and insert “stuff” as needed. You can order from the Levenger website, or you can buy the materials from Staples (that’s where I get mine). Sometimes, as I work on my planner, I wish I had begun with the Arc system, and I may have to go to that if my planner does not hold up to use. (See how stuffed it is?)

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Ode to the West Wind

Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792 – 1822

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