Visual Journaling Inspiration No.2 / Seasons and Rituals

Visual Journaling Inspiration | Seasons and Rituals

Journal Entry No. 02

Welcome to a new series here on the blog that shares my journey with visual journaling. With 2025 marking the start of my seventh year of doing it. It only seemed fit to start this series and reflect on those six years of daily sketching. With lots of memories preserved and lessons learned along the way. These series will take you into the heart of it all.

Visual Journaling Seasons and Rituals

I love seasons.The slow rhythm of repetition year after year. Once one is gone another begins. And like in nature so it is in our lives. We go through endless seasons of beginnings, endings and then new beginnings. Marking the start of a new season in our lives. I am not a person for change when it comes to the seasons in my life. I find change hard even if it is going in a new and good direction. Ever since I was young I was an old soul in a young persons body. Nostalgic to all that is past and was. So I find it hard to let go. I keep looking back. It was only once when I read this line somewhere ” The only constant is change” that I had that light bulb moment! The change is constant and it is here to stay and it was then when I started realizing the importance of my visual journals. They gave me a safe space to capture and treasure those moments I find hard to let go.

Something that has started as an attempt to hold myself accountable for daily practice became much more than that. It became a visual diary of our lives. Of my children growing up. One leaving home. Us achieving various mile stones. Our travels. Change of jobs and  much more. It is then that I found my love of storytelling that has been inside me all this time which I didn’t even knew existed. Those tiny little diaries preserved snippets of our lives and people that came and went and are now in our memories forever.

As I reflect now on the six years I have been doing this. I can’t but help wishing I have had this idea when my children were little. How many important moments would have been preserved in those pages. Alas, I was too tiered. Mostly doing the parenting on my own when husband was working abroad and my mind back then was just not in the right place. I guess it had to happen at this time for a reason. I am glad it did. Better late than never. I can now look back and see all the stages we’ve been through and I am so looking forward to filling up many books years to come.

Visual Journaling Reflections

Flipping through the pages over the years I see themes that keep repeating themselves. Themes that now have became rituals and need to be included in every year’s pages. Birthdays, Travels, People in our lives, gifts and small acts of kindness from our family and friends, an odd bad day of sickness or difficulty, dishes that bring joy and memories from the past, family, endless cups of coffee and the list goes on. As I continue with these series I will tackle each theme and reflect on it in a post on its own.

If you’re new here. Hello and welcome. You might want to go to  journal entry No. 1 to see how this all started.