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Can you feel it? Spring is stirring up change and pushing us to grow.
In the middle of all this expansion and light, I am so excited to share something The Lucia Collective has been cooking up since late last year - our first online journal, Mischief!
The Lucia Collective formed in March 2021 as an inspired monthly subscription to invite intuition, beauty and voice to our heart work. By September a new theme emerged. Mischief is the lighthearted practice of inviting regular doses of nonsense, silliness, monkey business, shenanigans and trickery — the play that transforms our lives and our world.
Four of our members (+ me, so five?) generously contributed their work to be published in The Lucia Collective’s first journal - an online chapbook of sorts called Mischief.
Thank you MaryJo Fitzgerald (); Elaine Genest (); Lotta Leppällä () and Henrie Richer ()! Through your eyes, artwork and words, Mischief feels both deep and lighthearted, moving and playful.
I invite you to make a date with this unique publication. Get a cup of coffee or tea, curl up on your couch with your laptop or tablet and breathe slowly while you take it in. There is poetry, artwork, essay, imagery and sound.
Perhaps it will leave you inspired to create some mischief of your own?
To experience Mischief, visit the link in our profile and click "Read Mischief from The Lucia Collective."
Love,
Laura (.light)

“To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.” ~Mary Oliver
Our attention is all we really have to offer this world, if you think about it. When we boil down our talents, wisdom and offerings into a thickening sauce, it is our attention that emerges as the base.
Where we place our attention is how we experience life. Where we place our attention is what we *do* with our life. It can be focused or it can be scattered (mine often is). I’m not here to criticize the scatter—there is beauty and creativity that arises from messiness—but what I want to do is practice becoming more mindful of where my attention is going and who or what is “getting” it.
One old habit I have decided to break is scrolling Instagram in the evenings when I am tired. I am choosing to look during the morning or afternoon, and only at accounts that bring me a sense of connection, inspiration, joy, curiosity or encouragement for offline life.
One new habit I have started is “hiding” my smartphone from my view. I put it beneath a cashmere throw while I read, or under a kitchen towel while I cook, or in a drawer while I sleep. It’s amazing how “out of sight, out of mind” works, and this simple act frees my brain which is otherwise uncontrollably addicted to wondering what’s on the phone. This act of hiding the thing enables me more mind-space to dream, ponder, listen, perceive the world around me, and create.
I have more access to the real, the relational, the richer tapestry of dimensions I can touch and feel and smell and hear and inhabit.
-Excerpted from The Lucia Collective, September Notebook, “Inviting Quiet”
How do you practice paying attention?

Here is the link to the full and newest piece at Lucia, "New Year in County Dublin," by Gráinne Conroy.

She writes, "Hours pass as I sit there watching the scene through the window­­—the light and the tides changing; the tower and the headland in the distance; the lighthouse being hidden and revealed by the passing clouds; the odd boat at sea.

"I need to send one email but it takes me days­­—because of the patchy internet, but mostly because of my submergence into an existence far from the city and far from everything.".

Gráinne captures a sentiment I believe so many people are feeling at this time, and reminds us how quiet time—just for ourselves—to do nothing but walk and soak in beauty can restore our weary souls. I hope you enjoy it too. ~Laura

lucia journal - new year in county dublin, by gráinne conroy — lucia "Lying in bed in the darkness I scrolled through my phone for some kind of getaway within the county limits."