Soulful Giraffe

24/12/2023

Wishing merry Christmas to all those who celebrate it and to the rest happy holiday season, with one of my favourite seasonal Soulful Giraffes

24/12/2022

Merry Christmas. Giraffe Love to all.

22/07/2022

I run into a fun Gigi giraffe made of LEGO in Scheveningen, The Hague, NL

06/07/2022

I found a giraffe 🦒 lurking from a window in Alicante/ Alacant, Spain 🇪🇸

06/10/2021

Today would be the 87th birthday of Marshall Rosenberg, the founder of . I have been so deeply influenced and changed by NVC and Marshall that I wish to mark and celebrate his birthday with this Soulful Giraffes drawing depicting Marshall's quote:
"Your presence is the most precious gift you can give to another human being."

30/07/2021

Yesterday a note book with a quote "Giraffe is a language of the heart." by Marshall Rosenberg, founder of , and an inspiration for reached me in The Netherlands from Serbia ❤️

09/06/2021

As relevant a reminder as it was a year ago.

Before you speak, let your words pass through three gates:
Is it true?
Is it necessary?
Is it kind?

22/04/2021

Happy Earth Day 🌎🌍

25/12/2020

Merry Christmas 🎅 & Happy Holidays🎄

21/12/2020

Hello to all of you Soulful Giraffe supporters and fans,

It has been a while since you've heard from us, Soulful Giraffe and me, Gordana. We took a holiday back in the summer and somehow this holiday has turned into some kind of extended sabbatical😉.
Recently, I heard someone saying that "our soul speaks in images", this resonates with me as a truth, because that is how for a year and a half my soul was speaking to me through images of Soulful Giraffe.
However, I realised that in the last month or two before "the holiday" I was creating Soulful Giraffe drawings just to keep the schedule of posting three times a week going. It was starting to feel a little bit like a burden, rather than inspiration, and joy, and fun, and play, and that is why I took a holiday from posting.
In all honesty I was thinking that it would be a break of a few weeks, but then it turned into months. I have just not had either a desire or drive to be posting on schedule.
From the beginning of the Soulful Giraffe's existence she has been a fun expression of my soul and a desire for pure, honest and playful inspiration and this is how I want to keep it.

Nevertheless, I wanted to use this time of the year to reconnect. I have a need to show up honestly and to share with you what has been happening with the Giraffe and me. I do not know, at this moment, whether or when I'll start to draw and share Soulful Giraffe drawings on a regular basis again. For now, Soulful Giraffe will appear as and when I am inspired to create and not on schedule. She's always alive in me even when not drawing or posting.

I also wanted to share with all of you season's greeting and to send to you the best wishes for the holidays.
I hope you'll create some time for yourself, reflect on this unusual year, to say the least, enjoy some festive food (a mince pie😉 ) and company of those you can physically be with and
🎶" Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Let your heart beat light🎵
Next year all of our troubles 🎶
Will be out of sight."🎵 (Hopefully)

Stay healthy, loving, joyous and true to yourself.

With love and peace
Gordana♥️ and Soulful Giraffe 🦒

04/07/2020

Recharge your batteries regularly ♥️
Such a simple advice. We all know it and yet, so often, many of us wait until the moment when we are completely flat out, without any more juice left, dead inside.
I wish to share that at the moment I am not yet flat out, but I am hearing messages from my soul that it needs some charging. I have, therefore, decided to take a few weeks off to inspire and charge my own soul, so that I can continue to be authentic, inspirational and soul-full soul behind Soulful Giraffe.
Today's Giraffe is the last post before I start with my 'recharging holiday.'
Giraffe and I will see you in a few weeks time. In the meantime look after your gentle hearts and tender souls. Recharge them regularly.
Love and peace to all.
Gordana

01/07/2020

Happy 1st Birthday to the Soulful Giraffe❣️

Today, it is exactly one year since the Soulful Giraffe website and the first inspirational drawing were shared publicly with the world.

To celebrate I would love to hear from you,
in the comments, whether you have a favourite Soulful Giraffe drawing and inspiration, or maybe one that 'found' you exactly at the time when you needed it.

Giraffe and I wish to thank you for following and encouraging us with your comments during this first exciting year.

Love to all,
Gordana