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Have the Most Amazing Year & Beyond!
Enjoy Your Calendar!

Threads of Love, everyone and everything, a weaving, a streaming, create this wondrous tapestry of mystery we call life. Each thread unique and perfect in their own way, part of the greater whole, the evolving flow.

While creating these calendars, monthly themes emerged, facets of love where each really contains all 12. Each month includes text about the theme and plays to explore during your day or whenever inspired. Let ease, joy, play, curiosity and discovery be your guide.

In Peace, Flow, Harmony, Love & Joy,
David Gilbert

MONTHLY THEMES
JANUARY ~ INNOCENCE & WONDER
FEBRUARY ~ INTIMACY & CONNECTION
MARCH ~ ESSENCE & KNOWING
APRIL ~ LISTENING & BEING
MAY ~ EASE & FLOW
JUNE ~ BEAUTY & INSPIRATION
JULY ~ JOY & EXPRESSION
AUGUST ~ REST & NURTURE
SEPTEMBER ~ HONOR & REMEMBER
OCTOBER ~ WHOLENESS & HARMONY
NOVEMBER ~ POWER & SOVEREIGNTY
DECEMBER ~ LOVE & SURRENDER

JANUARY invites the senses as portals to presence & clear perception as you play in the world as if for the first time, with curiosity, INNOCENCE & WONDER. In FEBRUARY you bring this quality to yourself in a more inner-directed way to honor & appreciate you as you are, deepening your INTIMACY & CONNECTION with yourself, others & the world. MARCH invites you to connect inwards with the ESSENCE of who you are with deep KNOWING & sense of Self. In APRIL your LISTENING & BEING invites time to dwell in the unknown & mystery where intuition, insight, & inspiration arise. MAY brings presence to your creations & daily activities with EASE & FLOW. Awareness of breath & body reveals patterns affecting flow in your life. In JUNE you discover BEAUTY & INSPIRATION all around inside & out. JULY inspires JOY & EXPRESSION in who you are & what you do & share. AUGUST is REST & NURTURE to restore & renew especially in times when your body-mind can use it most. SEPTEMBER is time to HONOR & REMEMBER, to acknowledge & appreciate all you & others have been, are being & becoming. OCTOBER welcomes WHOLENESS, presence & inner calm to bring balance & HARMONY within oneself & with life. NOVEMBER’s POWER & SOVEREIGNTY reigns with greater unity within, staying true to you, in integrity & empowered. DECEMBER’s LOVE & SURRENDER welcomes you, your essence, your soulfulness, the gift of love you are, a quantum being, a thread of love in this wondrous tapestry of mystery called life.

WAYS TO USE CALENDAR
~ Do the play of the month each day or when inspired.
~ Read through all 12 months & use what inspires whenever you choose.
~ Randomly flip to other months & do that month’s play.
~ Make the Plays your own, modify, and/or create new ones. Suggestions for when to do the Plays:
~ Mornings & Evenings ~ Random moments when inspired
~ Use a timer/alarm during the day ~ During transition times: before or after activities, travel, commute, meetings, break times, meal times Suggested

Preparation:
~ Before you begin a Play, give yourself time to arrive to yourself & the place & space you’re in. Wherever you are, gather your attention, feel the support of the chair, bed, or whatever you are on, rest, settle, not trying to change/fix anything, just a gentle tending to the moment.
~ Notice, appreciate the space around you, see something of interest or that inspires, listen to the space, notice how you feel, notice the quality of your breath, natural, easy, letting go on an exhale or two.
~ Choose an intention if you like for the exploration – maybe there’s something specific related to the day. Keep the intention simple, clear, open to possibilities, an invitation.
~ And begin the play : )!

About the Images I enjoy the play & merging of textures, colors, forms, space, light & shadow. I use a layered process with unexpected & welcomed surprises as images & pieces of images of nature, people, animals, objects & urban landscapes play together.

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