you are allowed to be free you are allowed to be unbothered you are allowed to choose what and who you allow access to you you are allowed to be safe you are allowed to heal you are allowed to be peaceful and self affirming you are allowed to be sovereign and holy as you are you are allowed to […]
creative practice / list / self compassion
living from the heart. some thoughts on creative practice.
live from the heart but know what you need to know to do what needs to be done. go your own way. be your biggest cheerleader and hype person and keep going but don’t be afraid to pivot or change your approach or mind. listen to others but live by your own inner pilot light. shine how you want to […]
creative practice / writing
summer things
this summer has been fun/full. of all the. things. mostly parenting. plants and a good dose of art/making. it’s been clumsy and chaotic affair but deliciously human. gratitude permeates the land/me.
creative practice / selflove
nature as nurturer
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 / self compassion
finding a way
finding a way to thrive nestle your body in the cracks and allow your own feet to root reaching for the goodness beyond knowing that gives a soul rest the truth is it’s so easy to get wrapped in others but you can’t bloom if you don’t know who you are let the sun turn in you and remind you […]
creative practice / writing
showing up softly
the sun ebbs but flows feeling like a chickadee fluttering in the oregano still tasting the oil in my own pores wanting the soft warmth to reveal me and the chicory flowers to forgive me for doubting they would ever bloom
creative practice
daily creative practice and all that jazz
I’ve been doing icad for the last 29 days, that is not amazing or maybe it is the most amazing part for me is that I don’t actually like the things I have been creating….like not at all. however, I find that my lack of attachment to what I am creating makes me enjoy my other creative pursuits more. it’s […]
self compassion / writing
resting
watching birds or not reading or not reading doing or not doing don’t lament don’t even try to capture it just be /you
creative practice / self compassion / writing
how do we
how do we become as we are if we don’t open to it the wind will save the seed