it’s high key high summer. all of the town (and surrounding areas) are summering hard. I have adjusted my expectations for summer many times. it’s always a shock that I can only do so much in a given day and yet it is freeing. I am learning so much on the ground as a mother, a parent, a partner and […]
creative practice / photography
solace
a garden is a delight to the eye and a solace for the soul Saadi a few garden and plant places that have been feeding my heart lately. it’s so hot and humid. getting out is tricky but the plants are always there waiting.
list / photography
pink and red
the first flowers red sunshine the big umbrella connecting to the ground matcha green finding beauty in the waiting trusting that song
art / creative practice
rekindling: a flower story
sometimes, it’s just a little spark a glimmer of memory that opens the world inside of you to yourself and you remember your own sweetness like a swan swimming towards her soulmate legs kicking water you, too have returned to Love.
creative practice / list / memory / tinyhappy
saying yes to what matters…
today is another rainy day. I am here writing on my actual computer because my tablet seems to have major limitations when it comes to the website. I am not complaining. just saying….I have not been willing to sit down and write here in a while but here I am. looking out at the elm tree. watching the hazy stone […]
artjournaling / creative practice / self compassion / writing
mantra/s and meditations of freedom (no1.)
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” ― Albert Camus “I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to the sobbing school […]
memory / writing
Fall
I am checking the forecast who,e the tea kettle readies itself to boil. The toddler and the cat are having a wee disagreement about who should sit on the top of the couch, the answer is really neither but I pick my battles.I have been working on national novel writing project. I thought it was going to be a novel […]
art / memory / selflove
Freedom feels
There is glory in smallness.I am learning this as I explore what creative practice means to me .It is so easy to get wrapped up in what everyone else is doing but true freedom comes in learning and honoring whatever works for me…in this season of life.I am learning|How to leave space.To explore.To start again.To go small.To let things be.That […]