creative practice / self compassion

slowly now

the summer is summering.i am sipping lots of hibicus tea and sweeping the floors more than I ever thought possible until I give up and realize I am the only one standing by the broom. it’s peak stone fruit season. I dream of pies, tarts and crumbles but settle for eating plums and peaches cut up and in the kid’s […]

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.

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

photography / self compassion

Orange

it’s been a full week. a full year. a full fullness. I am not complaining just observing the flowers the bees my own energy I use this little blog as a tether to the world a way to show up in my own small way to shout into the heavens and the earth that it matters beauty ugliness the smallness […]

creative practice / list

soft life

making fairy gardens watching the flowers sway in the wind morning outside on the deck with a cup of matcha putting up the tea shelves taking photos because it makes my heart sing messy desk in the corner near the window the feverfew has started to bloom the bees dancing in the lavender clover between my toes

selflove / writing

accept the passion

it is what saves you let it burn as fast or as softly as your voice yearns call out to it if you need to let it be a tossing bowl of emotions and desires fighting wildly in the streets of your heart it will sigh and dance unhinged and unashamed bowing to the sun caressing the sigh of the […]