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without reading a description of Journal Meditations of a Wild Artist,
Heron Dance’s daily e-journal. 

Early each morning (about 4am) we send Journal Meditations of a Wild Artist, to Heron Dance members. Each e-journal features a painting and reflection on the gentle arts of a well-lived life, as seen from the periphery, from perspective of an artist and lover of wild nature living deep in the woods.

Journal Meditations of a Wild Artist is the e-journal version of The Heron Dance Art Journal

I live in the woods and create Journal Meditations of a Wild Artist. It is an offering to the early morning, an effort to start the day right: words and images of beauty and reverence.

As of 2012, I’ve been creating Heron Dance for eighteen years. The Art Journal is the culmination of that, my reflections from years on the road and years living in close connection with wild nature, offering art and words from deep inside my core, printed on beautiful paper and bound by a small hand bindery. It is published once a year, in October.

Journal Meditations of a Wild Artist is the e-journal version of The Art Journal, and is offered via email daily.

- Roderick MacIver, artist, Heron Dance founder. Heron Dance was founded in 1994.

Become a Member

Membership is offered two ways:

• Subscribing to Journal Meditations of a Wild Artist, the daily e-journal. Each morning, usually at 4 am, Heron Dance emails a nature painting and reflection from life in the woods. Select one of the three options pictured below.
• Purchase of The Heron Dance Art Journal, a limited edition annual book of art and observations on living a life close to wild nature, a life that seeks to be its own work of art. Scroll down to read more.

Journal Meditations of a Wild Artist, The E-journal, Delivered Daily by Email and/or PDF (Approximately 7 cents a day). (Scroll down if you prefer to become a member by mail or phone.)

$2 a Month Recurring

$20 a Year Recurring

$20 One Time Contribution (Renewal Notice Sent In 12 Months)

• Included with your membership is free access to daily PDFs of this daily e-journal, as well as other member benefits listed below. Heron Dance designed the Meditations Journal Binder, complete with tabbed dividers, to fit these PDF print-outs. Premium lined journal paper for your own journal notes is also available for purchase separately or in combination with the binder. Please scroll down to the bottom of the page to order the binder, paper, or the set, as well as to review other binder content options.

In place of The Art Journaling Daybook, we are now offering The Heron Dance Art Journal, an annual limited edition book of art and reflections. Purchase of this work includes Journal Meditations of a Wild Artist, the daily e-journal.

This book is hand bound, printed on a particularly beautiful paper, and enclosed in either a slip case or clamshell case. The Heron Dance Art Journal is the ultimate expression of the work of Heron Dance. We’ve taken the money we used to put into mailing and digital printing each quarter, and created the highest quality art book we are able to create, a book that is a work of love. Purchase of this work includes the daily e-journal.

Click here to read more or order.

Both Journal Meditations of a Wild Artist and The Heron Dance Art Journal include:

• a daily e-journal (delivered by email). You will be automatically signed up for this. To change, use the Update Subscription Preferences link on the bottom of every e-journal you receive.
• A daily PDF of Journal Meditations of a Wild Artist for your own printing. The PDFs are formatted to fit in the Meditations Journal Binder, available below.
• advance notice of new originals before they are offered in A Pause for Beauty.
• members can download free PDFs of recent quarters of Reflections of a Wild Artist (the predecessor to Art Journaling Daybook) including Maniacs Seeking the New Encounter, Simplicity is Profound, Art is About the Mystery and The Song I Came to Sing. Some members print these out and use them as part of a daily or weekly journaling practice. Visit Recent Quarters of Reflections (Free).
• free e-cards of Heron Dance Art Studio paintings.
• share your website with other members and visitors to the Heron Dance website.
• the free use of Heron Dance art for websites and self-published book covers, with proper credit.

To subscribe and become a member by mail or to purchase The Heron Dance Art Journal by mail:

HERON DANCE ART STUDIO
Hummingbird Lane
179 Rotax Road
North Ferrisburgh, VT 05473

To make a purchase, subscribe or become a member by email please message us at: heron@herondance.org.

To make a purchase, subscribe or become a member by phone, call 802.922.9652.

To order a gift subscription of Journal Meditations of a Wild Artist or the print publication, The Art Journal, enter your name under billing address during check out and send us an email with the recipient’s mailing and email address by clicking here. To send a gift announcement, please use one of our e-cards.

Additional items and information on journaling:

Binder Content Options:
A Poet’s Moods: Perspectives on Journaling	Lined Journal Paper	Premium Unlined Paper	Meditations Journal Binder to hold the The Art Journaling Daybook, A Poet’s Moods (Perspectives on Journaling), Lined Journaling Paper, Premium Unlined Paper

To order the Meditations Journal Binder separately, add to cart below (shipped from Amazon). Cost: $20.00. For a description of the binder, click here.

To order the premium lined journal paper separately, add to cart below. Cost: $13.00. For a description of the paper, click here.

To order the binder and a set of premium lined journal paper together, add to cart below. Cost: $30.00 (this is a $3.00 discount off of ordering separately).

THANK YOU FOR BEING A PART OF THIS WORK!
We’re glad you’re along for the journey.

Another option: our free weekly e-journal, A Pause for Beauty, which is the Wednesday edition of Journal Meditations of a Wild Artist. Visit here.