Recently spent a few weeks volunteering up in the beautiful mountains of Quebec, a couple hours north of Montreal. It’s a delightfully remote area, without cell phone reception and with just a spot of wifi here and there.
I did a bit of designing, including a big ol’ sign (9ft by 3ft) for the vegetable stand where they sell off the abundance from the organic garden:
And also a couple of advertisements, here’s one:
But mostly what I did was run about and get dirty in the garden and swim in the lake and scrub pots and fold laundry and make new friends and see lots of wildlife (including a baby bear!) and eat wild raspberries and spend all kinds of time outdoors with the flowers and the woods, waking when the sun came up excited for life and sleeping like the dead when the sun went down. It was lovely and restorative.
What I noticed was that the longer I spent connected to nature and disconnected from my computer, the more and more creative I became. It began getting expressed in all sorts of fun little ways — making up games with the kids, assembling elaborate flower bouquets, ‘cooking’ raw.
But also I couldn’t wait to get back to work, filled with new ideas. More on those to come….!
