Sketching/ writing has always been an outlet I have used, however, a couple years ago I became disciplined in my journal practice. I started with the idea of not liking to separate the different subjects of what I was learning from my own life, schedule, personal thoughts, goals, and prayers, etc. During this time I was in the process of developing my concept and body of artwork, the “rough draft" was constant intentional writing which I like to refer to as brain vomiting. I tried a couple things to figure out my own rhythm of writing. One was waking up every morning and before I left for the day I had to fill an entire page with words. They didn't have to make any sense or have a goal, just enough thoughts to fill a page, but that over time they developed into comfort with the process of a stream of consciousness documenting and amounted to tangible metaphors or plans or just life statements of identity or observation.

The success of this was obvious in my growth of the general subject classes, as well as, my overall excitement and passion for life and fine art. I have always doodled in class but by the combining of my day planner, diary, sketchbook and daily notes all in one NON LINED journal it amounted to a beautiful overlapping of what I was learning into application of my habits and artwork and general intentions of everything. I began drawings and then fill them with notes, making the notes a part of the "piece" I would begin at the beginning of a class. This was a breakthrough to my learning process and retaining the information of the class lecture to apply it directly to the projects for all classes, conversations, my BFA concept, and general interests. This also gave me a lot of identity confidence and security in my painting concept. It taught me how to love spending time with myself anywhere anytime if I had a journal and some preferred pens. The idea is to create your own structure of remembering important things and creating new ideas to fall in love with all the potential of your beautiful unique brain and benefit from its awesome and creative potential.