As a new year begins, I’m thinking less about resolutions and more about what to release. This essay reflects on slow living, creative capacity, and the quiet work of setting down what no longer belongs so that what remains can be tended with care.

January often arrives with energy, plans, and good intentions. I love that momentum, but I’m learning to be cautious about the pace that follows. This is an invitation to begin the year gently, letting winter set the tempo so clarity, creativity, and sustainable progress can grow in their own time. 🌿

A reflection on the quiet season between holidays, where early winter in Virginia invites us to slow down, pay attention, and let creativity return. Snow days, bare trees, and the hush of the woods become reminders that rest is fertile ground. ❆ Includes three new benediction images to save or share.

There's a deep quiet that comes after sharing new work. For months, The Sanctuary Collection lived entirely within my studio and my imagination. Then it became something seen and held by others. One piece holds a memory I've been carrying for over thirty years - kayaking on Jordan Pond in Acadia for the first time, surrounded by mountains and stillness. ✨

Before The Sanctuary Collection leaves my studio and enters the world, I wanted to share what the making looks like from the inside: the quiet rhythm, the slow carving, the words that become texture in clay and paper. This collection began, as all my work does, with morning pages and blessings written before the day begins. From those words came the images: light on water, trees reflected in still ponds, shadows on kitchen walls. Each piece was shaped by hand and by heart, inviting rest and reflection into the everyday.

All artwork begins as a small, dormant seed. 🌱 In this reflection from The Sanctuary Collection, artist Sarah K shares how ideas take shape slowly - through rest, rhythm, and the in-between spaces where creativity grows quietly beneath the surface. 🌿

Quiet can feel impossible in a noisy world - but stillness is something we can return to, again and again. ♥️ Artist Sarah K shares how her creative practice becomes a sanctuary in motion, and how you can begin to find your own. 🫶🏼

Slowness isn’t wasted time—it’s how we make space for what matters. 🐢 In this post, I share 3 simple practices to help you slow down and find strength in rest.

Slowness isn’t wasted time—it’s how we make space for what matters. 🐢 In this post, I share 3 simple practices to help you slow down and find strength in rest.

Burnout isn’t a weakness—it’s what happens when a culture profits from our exhaustion. Rest isn’t wasted time; it’s resistance, renewal, and the foundation of meaningful work.