Wow! Once again, I have let so much time go by between posts on this blog, that I almost feel like a different person, and so MUCH has happened and changed, that I fear I may not be able to adequately catch the reader up.

And I would like to THANK my few faithful readers, those who check for updates on a regular basis, not giving up on me. I hope I have not let you down too badly, but it DOES appear that I am once again returning to a time when I will be able to focus more on my own digital work, and less on working for others and such. Yay! Not sure that will translate into more consistent posts on this blog, because…

• I write in physical notebooks nearly every day, and often also in my digital Evernote notebooks.
• It seems I do not really focus on the PRAYER part of this “prayer blog” any longer, since I’ve only been writing a few times a year, and use it to more to catch my readers up on details of my personal life, rather than praying with scripture.

Yet that “PW project” (PW is my shorthand for Praying with the Word) is just one of MANY I have in mind, and does not yet make the “short list” of things I am focusing on NOW:

• Plants, plants, plants! I have been making slow progress, but at least once or twice a week adding to my collection of SPECIES pages, physical and digital card decks, and other resources for learning wild plants, and the relationship between them. <3
• HSL Color Math and offering my services as a Digital Color Consultant = PRECISE color palettes featuring mathematically related colors and hex numbers for using in ANY digital project: web pages, printables, promo materials, even social media posts.
• My new Etsy Shop, where I will eventually feature my HSL COLOR services and pre-selected palettes (like the one in the featured pic for this blog), along with my plant cards, mindfulness and other self-improvement card decks and activities, plus all sorts of puzzles and funstuffs. As of today, I only have 3 listings in my Etsy store, JoExplore.
• I’ve also been creating new sections for my website to reflect various aspects of myself like Nature Nerd, Color Consultant, Discovery Coach, Puzzlemaker, Health Nut, and Language Learner. These will be added to my home page once I get at least six of them ready for launch.
• I’m creating whole sets of digital and printable cards, and will be adding those to their appropriate sections, and I’ve already created a landing page for those at FranLaff.com/dailies.