What goodness have you noticed today? 🌈

Hi friends!

I’ve been returning lately to one of my core creative practices—a practice I ended up writing an entire book about.

Looking for wonder. Noticing beauty. Paying attention to the goodness in the world.

Lately, I’ve been logging the tiniest bits of goodness: the luscious pink peonies from Trader Joe’s, the squirrel that stood on its hind legs in the middle of the street and stared at me, the chalk labyrinth I found on a walk, a ride on a steam train in Tilden Park, someone bringing me fresh mint from their garden and making me tea...

This practice has been helping me so much that I decided to create a new class around it! It’s called Wonderspotting, and at its heart is one simple question we’ll carry with us for a month:

What goodness have I noticed today?

And by goodness, I mean beauty. Wonder. Kindness. Delight. Awe.

I mean the translucent jellyfish that washed up on the beach and the stranger who smiled at me in the grocery store. I mean a roadside flower stand. An overheard conversation. An act of courage. An elderly couple holding hands. A perfectly ripe peach.

We’re not only talking about natural beauty. We’re also talking about moral beauty—the goodness we witness in other people. Small kindnesses. Generosity. Bravery.

I’ve created a downloadable Wonder Spotting Field Journal for the class (though you could just as easily carry a little notebook in your bag and jot things down there!)

Throughout the month, we’ll be sharing our field notes with one another and creating a kind of collective record of beauty—evidence of all that’s lovely, moving, surprising, and life-giving in the world, existing right alongside everything that’s difficult and heartbreaking.

We’ll talk a little bit about the neuroscience of attention and why this practice matters. But mostly I just want us to gather and share what we love. To compare notes. To widen the lens through which we see our world and our lives.

And the experiment is simple:

What happens after 30 days of looking for goodness?
How do we feel?
What is possible?
What becomes visible that wasn’t visible before?

I’d love to find out together.

We start June 22nd, the first day of Summer! Just $44 dollars ❤️

xo Andrea

MORE DETAILS HERE

Wild Writing Summer Sessions:

Wild Writing (Wednesday mornings at 10am PST)
Starts July 1st at 10am PST -11:30am PST (8 weeks)
We write together in a small group, keep the pen moving, and practice listening—to ourselves and each other—without critique.
→ A few spots still available

Wild Writing (Friday mornings at 10am PST)
Starts July 3rd at 10am PST -11:30am PST (8 weeks)
We write together in a small group, keep the pen moving, and practice listening—to ourselves and each other—without critique.
→ A few spots still available

Wild Writing (Sunday mornings at 8:30am PST)
Starts July 12th at 8:30am PST -10am PST (8 weeks)
We write together, keep the pen moving, and practice listening—to ourselves and each other—without critique.
→ One spot still available