Apologies to anyone who receives this post but who has unsubscribed in the past.
A couple of people who have supported this work informed me recently that though they send in a monthly contribution, they aren’t receiving these Substacks. So I re-uploaded the email addresses of all supporters, and then removed anyone who had previously unsubscribed. I think. I hope. If you have previously unsubscribed, please accept my apologies and sorry to put you to the trouble, but please unsubscribe again.
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The following rough notes were used to improvise off in the creating the video voiceover. What I actually ended up saying was different than these notes, but they may help clarify anything unclear in the video.
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Before Zen Mountain Journal, for twenty years, Heron Dance was an art journal that explored topics related to gratitude as a philosophy of life and spiritual practice, creativity and the human connection to the natural world. After a hiatus of a few years, I relaunched Heron Dance as a Substack. Eighteen months ago I published a hardcover book of my art and writing, Nurturing the Song Within. It does have similarities with Zen Mountain Journal, although they approach the subject from different perspectives – east and west. Both explore our connection to our inner world, and both use journaling as a tool for accessing those deeper levels of awareness and inner peace.
Because it is outside the focus of my current work – the ancient poetry of Taoist mountain hermits -- I’m reducing the price of Nurturing from $95 to $77 including shipping for the last few copies.
I’d like to tell you a little about the book. It is full color throughout, smythe sewn binding – the highest quality commerical binding for books available -- dust jacket, first edition. It is full of my art, but in terms of written content, it summarizes everything I’d learned in thirty plus years of living a creative life on my own terms, including the struggles, false hopes and dead ends. And the deep meaning I’ve found doing this work.
For the right person on your Christmas list, for a creative person, someone to whom living a meaningful life is important, the book is an extraordinary Christmas gift.
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You can read the rest of these notes on the Heron Dance website here.
You can order the hardcover, first edition of Nurturing the Song Within here. It is currently on sale for $77.
You can order the diary/journaling edition (softcover, wire-o bound) here. $49.
You can order both together at the discounted price of $99 here.
