Oh oh oh I love seeing people connect with their local waters! That makes me so happy. Someone who worked on Lake Erie protection was the first person I ever heard suggest that people start thinking of themselves as citizens of watersheds rather than of nations. Waving hello to the wonderful creek you found, who I'm sure was grateful to be remembered and given attention.
And what a cool card your teen made! I know so little about tarot, love thinking of emperor as a mountain.
Thank you for the piece from your friend! Will read it and make some candied violets with the teen baker 💜
I have made so many wonderful connections with people here who care so much for their local water and land - it makes my heart very happy. I’m excited to try and find the river next week, I will hopefully get some photos this time too ✨
Of couuuurse we’ll stick around! Creeks emoji, bay emoji #connect I’m gonna check out the waterway map! This Pisces says yes please 🐢
Congrats on vision for your next year. I loooooove your watercolors: the paints themselves but also the shapes and snippets and runways 💞 that homemade/heartmade Xmas deck! Sob indeed 💘
When I saw you in my inbox this morning I made sure my coffee was ready and I was sitting outside on the patio to read:). It’s always such a pleasure to be with your words. And I love the way you’re attending to the deeper movements and allowing your creative rhythms to shift with the seasons. I find in my writing life I have to move with the rhythms of my body—which belong to the “underworld” of earth, to draw on your use of Neil Gaiman’s metaphor. It’s why my writing has never gotten off the ground before this past year—because I’ve lived out most aspects of my life by overriding these rhythms. But both motherhood and creativity require an attunement to the underworld.
I’m adding Neverworld to my list. I actually have very vividly felt myself toggling between an “upper world” that everyone around me takes for granted as real, and where I spent most of my life curating a self—and an underworld, that feels almost magical, almost like a dream, but it’s the world within which I’m able to love and live. Your description of the novel so vividly mirrors an inner geography I move between, I’ll definitely need to check it out.
This is a really beautiful story. I’m finding myself settle in to my personal Autumn (according to Tenae Stewart’s Celestial Alchemy method, you may experience personal seasons based on your rising sign), and while my creative mind is very much still active, it’s moving from a very productive energy that got Contemplating Resonance off the ground and got me through three intense months of classes to a very integrating energy. The kind of energy where you take a few things that resonated and go deep. The energy that turns new shoes into comfortably worn shoes. I’m getting the same vibe from this post. 💜
Thanks Matt, I really love that image of the new shoe becoming worn and comfy 🩷 I will check out that book - sounds really interesting. Sometimes I feel like parenthood forces certain seasons on you and I’m trying my best to accept them and find the gifts there.
Oh oh oh I love seeing people connect with their local waters! That makes me so happy. Someone who worked on Lake Erie protection was the first person I ever heard suggest that people start thinking of themselves as citizens of watersheds rather than of nations. Waving hello to the wonderful creek you found, who I'm sure was grateful to be remembered and given attention.
And what a cool card your teen made! I know so little about tarot, love thinking of emperor as a mountain.
Here is a beautiful little essay by my friend Sara Bir on making sugared violets: https://fullgrownpeople.com/2015/06/16/violets-boxes-stars/
Mmm loved the essay on violets - thanks for sharing 💜
Also, “citizens of watersheds” 👏🏽
Thank you for the piece from your friend! Will read it and make some candied violets with the teen baker 💜
I have made so many wonderful connections with people here who care so much for their local water and land - it makes my heart very happy. I’m excited to try and find the river next week, I will hopefully get some photos this time too ✨
Of couuuurse we’ll stick around! Creeks emoji, bay emoji #connect I’m gonna check out the waterway map! This Pisces says yes please 🐢
Congrats on vision for your next year. I loooooove your watercolors: the paints themselves but also the shapes and snippets and runways 💞 that homemade/heartmade Xmas deck! Sob indeed 💘
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Love that handmade deck!
It is the sweetest thing. It’s truly magical to see the way they interpreted the cards - lots of mushrooms and magical creatures. 😍
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Ugh strep sucks! Hope you are feeling better, glad it hasn't stopped you from getting outside
I am, thank you💗 and the sun is supposed to be shining tomorrow
When I saw you in my inbox this morning I made sure my coffee was ready and I was sitting outside on the patio to read:). It’s always such a pleasure to be with your words. And I love the way you’re attending to the deeper movements and allowing your creative rhythms to shift with the seasons. I find in my writing life I have to move with the rhythms of my body—which belong to the “underworld” of earth, to draw on your use of Neil Gaiman’s metaphor. It’s why my writing has never gotten off the ground before this past year—because I’ve lived out most aspects of my life by overriding these rhythms. But both motherhood and creativity require an attunement to the underworld.
I’m adding Neverworld to my list. I actually have very vividly felt myself toggling between an “upper world” that everyone around me takes for granted as real, and where I spent most of my life curating a self—and an underworld, that feels almost magical, almost like a dream, but it’s the world within which I’m able to love and live. Your description of the novel so vividly mirrors an inner geography I move between, I’ll definitely need to check it out.
That makes me happy to read 💗 I’m glad I could join you for morning coffee.
I hope you like it, I definitely recommend the audio that’s read by the author! It is a dark fairy tale and really captured my imagination.
This is a really beautiful story. I’m finding myself settle in to my personal Autumn (according to Tenae Stewart’s Celestial Alchemy method, you may experience personal seasons based on your rising sign), and while my creative mind is very much still active, it’s moving from a very productive energy that got Contemplating Resonance off the ground and got me through three intense months of classes to a very integrating energy. The kind of energy where you take a few things that resonated and go deep. The energy that turns new shoes into comfortably worn shoes. I’m getting the same vibe from this post. 💜
Thanks Matt, I really love that image of the new shoe becoming worn and comfy 🩷 I will check out that book - sounds really interesting. Sometimes I feel like parenthood forces certain seasons on you and I’m trying my best to accept them and find the gifts there.
I'm a fan of wild violets too! 🌸
They’re so cute and abundant! Did you know they’re edible? We put some in ice cubes for lemonade and made a violet simple syrup 💜
Wow! Violets in ice cubes would look so pretty. I didn't know that they were edible, very cool!