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Mira Joins Viztober

by | Oct 5, 2025

#Viztober is an annual drawing challenge which, in October 2025, explored metaphors – And that was exactly Mira’s forte! This was fun!!!

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Day 1

JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS

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Day 2

Swallowing Your Pride

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Day 3

Breaking the Ice

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Day 4

Spilling the Tea

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Day 5

Throwing Shade

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Day 6

Chasing Rainbows

I was traveling for a week, so these eight next ones come as rough sketches that I have manipulated a bit digitally (just erased extra lines with my finger on the phone screen…).

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A New doodle for Day 2

Swallowing Your Pride

When the ego makes you swallow your pride, it tastes bitter. Pride of who you are, doesn’t.

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Day 7

Riding the Wave

All things in life will pass. This too shall pass.

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Day 8

Opening New Doors

There has never been so many doors!!!

“Let’s open them all!” exclaims Mira’s heart.

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Day 9

Throwing in the towel

When you have started to dance with your heart, the ego can’t make you quit.

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Day 10

Pulling Strings

Mira learns to pull strings from the best and doesn’t realize that meanwhile, the ego is pulling hers.

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Day 11

Rising with the Tide

“Soon! So soon!”

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Day 12

Drawing the Line

This way Mira will have inner peace (that she needs more than ever now) by going over what happened in the past—with her heart. And the ego is not welcome. No more.

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Day 13

Planting Doubt

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Day 14

Catching Someone’s Eye

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Day 15

Fanning the Flames

When the world is on fire, which one’s advice would YOU rather listen to: the ego or your heart?

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Day 16

Sweeping things under the rug

This story continues in MIRA 1 book as a short story called What You Focus on Grows.

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Day 17

Hitting the nail on the head

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Day 18

Cutting corners

This one got me thinking… With the ego someone loses something when you cut the corners. Listening your heart, it’s a win-win for all.

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Day 19

Grasping at clouds

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Day 20

Crossing the bridge

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Day 21

Dancing with danger

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Day 22

Raising a red flag

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Day 23

Walking on a tightrope

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Day 24

Building castles in the air

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Day 25

Opening Pandora’s box

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Day 26

Lifting the veil

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Day 27

Carrying the torch

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Day 28

Lighting a Spark

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Day 29

Playing with fire

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Day 30

Sailing into the storm

Whatever the storm ahead will be, I’m prepared and let Love steer the way.

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Day 31 

*My favorite metaphor*
Wear Your Heart on Your Sleeve

Bonus day . . . COMING UP

Fall off the face of the earth

Bonus day . . . COMING UP

Get back on the horse

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The #Viztober prompts are written by a German Visual Thinker, Eva-Lotta Lamm.

Artist, Illustrator, Author & Life Coach. Turning struggles into loving laughter with her illustrations. Creator of Mira(cle)Doodles.

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