EXAMPLES OF USE
(would love to include an image or two of yours on this page, if you feel so moved)
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"i use it as an art therapy practice. i draw the thing or things which most excited me that day, excitement in the sense of fully activating my cellular being, so not always a pleasant excitation. observing how i represent these occurences thru symbol in drawing gives me further context into how i feel/am affected by them, plus the time spent drawing them means i am also reflecting upon and processing them. it is also a gratitude practice, as all drawing is prayer and gratitude to a thing."
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"I use the tracker as a visual diary. I'm primarily a writer and I have journals full of text I never look back on, so I appreciate the way the tracker arranges time visually so I can open it to any moment and see an overview of the feelings / experiences / people / ideas that were characterizing my days at that time. I use the tracker more to document things than to work through feelings, but at the same time, representing my life in a different medium than the one that comes most naturally has allowed me to recognize elements of my experience that would otherwise have been sort of subterranean. I also consider it an opportunity for play and low-stakes creation, and I love sharing it with friends." - Liz Bowen
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"I use it mostly for phenology notes... I draw or write to help me pay attention. What is sprouting or blooming or fruiting, what animals are visiting my yard, what I'm planting or harvesting in the garden." -Sheryl Joy
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"The first year I did very consistent daily word & drawing, but the current one I'm using differently. I am working my way through a poetry anthology, and I've been choosing lines from the poems to inspire drawings - and doing it more sporadically. I love both!" -Karen Wyman
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from Senna Flora and her kids, who use it to track their collective experiences of their days
"i use this tool to record biochemical events in myself and my surroundings. it is helpful to note the timing, frequency, and context of when i weep, experience sexuality, change medications, menstruate, and experience breakthroughs. i sometimes record learnings from relationships and experiences. sometimes i record nothing at all. i have also been somewhat using it to build compassion and pattern recognition with myself, and to begin establishing secure attachment with various kinds of wellbeing. sometimes i feel pleasant grounding looking back through my records and sketches and thinking ‘these are pretty beautiful human experiences’."
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"i use it as an art therapy practice. i draw the thing or things which most excited me that day, excitement in the sense of fully activating my cellular being, so not always a pleasant excitation. observing how i represent these occurences thru symbol in drawing gives me further context into how i feel/am affected by them, plus the time spent drawing them means i am also reflecting upon and processing them. it is also a gratitude practice, as all drawing is prayer and gratitude to a thing."
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"i note meaningful dreams, sexual experiences, significant medical information (which is logistically useful to return to later), insights of beauty, and especially experiences that push me toward growth and change. the deeper i journal, the greater comfort and insight i weave among my past, present and future selves. to me this is a tool of self learning, of pattern recognition over time, of cyclical worship, and of self love."
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"I've never used a journal consistently, despite trying. The difference with this tracker is that it forces me to use only the container given me for a single day, and I can flip back to the same point in previous lunar cycles and remind myself of my own ebbs and flows. Even greater than the pleasure of writing, doodling, and tracking moods is the pleasure of looking back in a way that makes me make more sense to myself." -Mark
"i note meaningful dreams, sexual experiences, significant medical information (which is logistically useful to return to later), insights of beauty, and especially experiences that push me toward growth and change. the deeper i journal, the greater comfort and insight i weave among my past, present and future selves. to me this is a tool of self learning, of pattern recognition over time, of cyclical worship, and of self love."
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"I've never used a journal consistently, despite trying. The difference with this tracker is that it forces me to use only the container given me for a single day, and I can flip back to the same point in previous lunar cycles and remind myself of my own ebbs and flows. Even greater than the pleasure of writing, doodling, and tracking moods is the pleasure of looking back in a way that makes me make more sense to myself." -Mark
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"I use the tracker as a visual diary. I'm primarily a writer and I have journals full of text I never look back on, so I appreciate the way the tracker arranges time visually so I can open it to any moment and see an overview of the feelings / experiences / people / ideas that were characterizing my days at that time. I use the tracker more to document things than to work through feelings, but at the same time, representing my life in a different medium than the one that comes most naturally has allowed me to recognize elements of my experience that would otherwise have been sort of subterranean. I also consider it an opportunity for play and low-stakes creation, and I love sharing it with friends." - Liz Bowen
"I use it mostly for phenology notes... I draw or write to help me pay attention. What is sprouting or blooming or fruiting, what animals are visiting my yard, what I'm planting or harvesting in the garden." -Sheryl Joy
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"The first year I did very consistent daily word & drawing, but the current one I'm using differently. I am working my way through a poetry anthology, and I've been choosing lines from the poems to inspire drawings - and doing it more sporadically. I love both!" -Karen Wyman
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from Senna Flora and her kids, who use it to track their collective experiences of their days
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"i use this tool to record biochemical events in myself and my surroundings. it is helpful to note the timing, frequency, and context of when i weep, experience sexuality, change medications, menstruate, and experience breakthroughs. i sometimes record learnings from relationships and experiences. sometimes i record nothing at all. i have also been somewhat using it to build compassion and pattern recognition with myself, and to begin establishing secure attachment with various kinds of wellbeing. sometimes i feel pleasant grounding looking back through my records and sketches and thinking ‘these are pretty beautiful human experiences’."
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"i am tracking mental patterns, health, ecological observations, dreams. on some cycles i track my energy fluctuations with a pink line along each day."