Amaya Rourke

"Seeing herons always soothes me a little ... Seeing them makes me feel like I am in the right place at the right time, somehow. I see them as a gift from another time" from 'Thin Places' by Kerri ní Dochartaigh.

"I am in the right place at the right time."

#HeronMindfulness

a box of watercolors and a brush on a light blue background ALT: a box of watercolors and a brush on a light blue background

I love that somehow I squirreled some paint away months ago, totally forgot about it, and discovered it like lost treasure this morning while looking for something else 😅

Sharing paintings with a fellow painter and just absolutely swooning over each other's work >>>>>>

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Hobonichi 😍😍😍

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TYSM Eli ❤️‍🔥

🙏🙏🙏 tysm ❤️‍🔥

Thank you so much for saying so 🙏💙 this felt extremely personal and agonizing to write

A Grey Heron and Colin Firth as Mr Darcy both ponder the waters.

Jane Austen's Mr Darcy was a Heron.
#JaneAusten #Literature

Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends:

1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;

2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;

3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.

Thank you so much Eli 🙏💙

I too can not spit out 100 words in SQL 😂

Do you have to write much for work?

I only suffer from this if I haven't thought long or hard enough on something 😂

Honestly, a very apt metaphor. Except I personally feel it is much less picturesque and more gruesome, on like a soul level 😭😂

The Storied Body: Rewriting Your Story for Creative Liberation (Coeurage Manifesto Part 2) Your aliveness is born from the story you embody. A false story will silence your creative heart.

Again, I have poured my heart out. Part 2 of the Manifesto is live!

If you have ever:

✨felt the ache of an unlived life
✨found yourself creatively blocked
✨looked at the stirring in your soul and asked, "But what is the point of doing this?"

This one's for you.

open.substack.com/pub/amayarou...

You know, I've never thought to try eating the flowers. Usually I leave them for the bees! But the leaves of the plant definitely smell and taste minty!

Yes! We have a species of mint here that grows in watery verges. So my local wetland (bog) has mint plants and flowers everywhere 🥰

This is why I love Substack and Youtube. I'm a long form content girly. But I am currently relearning how to do short form, because not everyone wants a 13 page essay 😂 not even me, and I'm writing it

100000% THIS

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Ty ❤️‍🔥🙏

Coeurage: A Manifesto for Reclaiming Your Creative Heart You are an animal that must create. To forget this is to be lost.

It’s finally live: the culmination of years of personal deep spiritual and creative seeking, my whole heart, rolled into a manifesto.

If you’re a:

✨ creative
✨ mystic
✨ if you crave spiritual grounding
✨ if you’re all of the above

This letter is for you.

open.substack.com/pub/amayarou...

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Amazing how changing my focus toward something I 100% love and feel zero conflict towards doing, makes me more okay to be seen/known again.

100/10 on aligning existence with your values, highly recommend

Happy birthday, love bug 💙

With you 100%

Slowing down versus aggressive confusion

Hitting an impenetrable (but definable) wall vs hitting an impenetrable (but undefinable) fog of irritation

😭 nooooo

^^^^^ The lit ass party that the alpha demon (the world's largest Labubu they are fundraising to destroy) is throwing to recruit more followers of Satan

LMFAO Labubu = Pazuzu is sending me

And my parents have had satanic panic my entire life, so you're not wrong 🤷‍♀️