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Gift from the Bees
In my recent Drawn to Bees workshop 🐝we focused on seeing and experience nature more deeply through our nature journals. This was time...
Melinda Nakagawa
Nov 24, 20243 min read
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Fun Skill building: Quick gesture sketches to build drawing skills
✏️Have you had challenges drawing that bird that flutters around or the cat that keeps changing position? ✏️Do you avoid sketching moving...
Melinda Nakagawa
Sep 17, 20243 min read
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How beauty shows up on my page
My process of nature journaling, quiet the inner critic, and let nature's beauty shine
Melinda Nakagawa
Feb 27, 20244 min read
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Wander through last year's nature journal to anticipate this year's treasures
revisit last year's pages to anticipate what you might see this year
Melinda Nakagawa
Jan 3, 20242 min read
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🌤 Clouds: How Nature journaling clouds helps me let go of perfection
Last week I spent a few days in the mountains and enjoyed big beautiful skies. I took lots of photos because I wasn’t able to nature...
Melinda Nakagawa
Jul 14, 20237 min read
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Magnolia Wisdom
Have you ever had a thought that pops into your awareness seemingly out of nowhere? Like a nudge to do something? I often do, and I’ve...
Melinda Nakagawa
Jul 3, 20234 min read
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Spring growth and tracking the changes
We’ve had so much rain here in California this winter, and it is allowing the grassy hills to remain lush and green into mid-April! As I...
Melinda Nakagawa
Apr 21, 20232 min read
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Befriending Trees Course: Winter wonders
Fun and easy ways to befriend Trees and learn to read their stories A 3-part online course: Thursdays, March 2, 9, and 16 Time:...
Melinda Nakagawa
Feb 20, 20235 min read
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Rainy day journaling 🌧
🌧 Rainy day journaling 🌧 On days like this- light rain falling all morning, I enjoyed a wander in the forest with my dog. She and I...
Melinda Nakagawa
Feb 11, 20233 min read
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Dormant trees reveal their stories
Now that we are in the middle of winter, deciduous trees have lost most of their leaves. This reveals so much more about the tree that...
Melinda Nakagawa
Feb 4, 20234 min read
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Reflections on Nature journaling
Happy New Year! I know many are ready to move on and leave 2022 behind. But as we turn our calendars to January, I’m actually drawn to...
Melinda Nakagawa
Jan 3, 20239 min read
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A moment in time: learning FROM nature versus learning ABOUT nature.
Nature is constantly changing- the sunrises and sets, the weather changes, every living thing goes through a perpetual cycle of birth,...
Melinda Nakagawa
Dec 2, 20224 min read
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Wander and wonder
This week I had a desire to get to the forest. I wanted to wander among the trees, take in the smells, sights, and feel the fresh air. I...
Melinda Nakagawa
Nov 18, 20224 min read
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What’s special about your nature journal?
This past week we had another lovely bookbinding workshop where we hand made books to use for nature journaling! It was great to be in...
Melinda Nakagawa
Nov 8, 20222 min read
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Unexpected kaleidoscope of colors
Its fall now and deciduous plants have leaves that turn bright colors before they drop. During this window of time between fresh color...
Melinda Nakagawa
Oct 8, 20223 min read
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Nature Journaling Week 2022 : Care (Video)
Watch Melinda’s session on the topic of Care for 2022 International Nature Journaling Week. How do we show Care in our nature journal?...
Melinda Nakagawa
Sep 29, 20221 min read
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Nature journal safari on Elkhorn Slough
Nature journals wild sea otters and other wildlife in their habitat! I’m offering a very special workshop- very limited seats so save...
Melinda Nakagawa
Aug 14, 20221 min read
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Trusting yourself: Listening and tuning into your heart
There’s something that I’ve been experiencing and getting more clarity about and I’d like to share with you. Its about trusting...
Melinda Nakagawa
Aug 6, 20222 min read
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Pausing for deep nature breaks
Summer is in full swing and I’ve enjoyed some quiet time in the mountains, rivers and the ocean. But for the past month I have not nature...
Melinda Nakagawa
Jul 14, 20223 min read
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Journaling around the world
International Nature Journaling Week, June 1-7 is a celebration of how we experience and record nature in our journals. June 1-7 This was...
Melinda Nakagawa
Jun 12, 20228 min read
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