On the summer solstice, 21 June, I laid a mandala over the pastel ground I had coloured. As I drew, I noticed something.

Hey — haven’t I been tired lately? Haven’t I been too caught up in making the mandala look the way a mandala should?

Thinking, “I’ll just draw it the way I like!”, I added the final colours — and the mandala came alive, and I felt my heart lift.

I will believe in myself, accept myself, and love myself. Before loving others, I will fill myself up… Perhaps I am the one who knows myself least. I want to come to know myself.

And so I focus on myself.