From the Compost Heap header. A pencil style illustration of a compost heap with flowers and plants growing around it. A bee buzzes by and a white rabbit hops by.
  • An image of Alice holding an ornate Victorian key from the 1985 live action version.

    You can also trace my key obsession back to Alice in Wonderland.

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  • “…there is no pulling myself up from my bootstraps. There is only wading through and building the bridge to get to the other side.”

    Cody Cook-Parrot

    Source

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  • Cilantro growing in a small wooden garden bed surrounded by cardboard.

    Have been experimenting with cardboard as (free) mulch to suppress weeds and 10/10 would recommend. It just has to be wedged or weighed down to avoid blowing away.

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  • The Wheel of Time

    Growing up I was a hardcore fan freak of The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan. It’s recently been reimagined as a television series and I’ve reconnected with the fandom and found so much joy in this vibrant and creative community.

    I wrote about my creative pilgrimage to Charleston, South Carolina where I saw Robert Jordan’s notes here:

    A wind rose in Charleston, South Carolina 🍃

    I also made this zine to sum up some of the reasons why we love The Wheel of Time. If you’re a fantasy nerd I think you’d really love it. I recommend jumping into the show first and you can always go back and read the books later.

    Read my other Wheel of Time posts here.

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  • Vintage keychain in the shape of an antique key battered around the edges.

    The Secret Garden keychain that started my fascination with keys.

    As a young child I used to carry this to pine trees in our yard and imagine opening portals to other worlds.

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  • Gardening Resources

    How to Plant Your First Garden 🌱 via Dark Properties

    Advice for Starting No Dig 🥕 via Charles Dowding

    Find Your Last Frost Date ❄️ via Almanac.com

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  • “Fiction has an incredible transformative power. Just because it is quiet and gentle and mostly invisible to the eye does not mean it is not there, this inner strength.”

    Elif Shafak

    Source: Fiction changes us from within.

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  • One of the many reasons I love The Wheel of Time.

    “There are a few basic themes that I think are pretty immutable, however. And the biggest one is: sometimes it is hard to understand people who were raised in a culture totally different from your own, but it is vital to try because we all fight together or we shatter.

    The show gets this 100%.”

    Bree via Bluesky

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  • “The best time to establish alternative, non-algorithmic networks of communication & affinity was five years ago.

    The second best time is today!

    Over the years, I’ve distributed many zines through the mail. Those have been one-off productions, which is to say, pageants of minor chaos, always with the sense, as the last zine went out the door, of skidding into home plate.

    The best time to estab­lish alternative, non-algorithmic net­works of com­mu­ni­ca­tion — to forge durable links in phys­ical space — to insist upon the demo­c­ratic neces­sity of a muscular, uni­versal postal ser­vice — was five years ago.

    The second best time is today.”

    Robin Sloan

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  • Green pipes in the shape of a gazebo with one clematis growing up the side. You can also see my green gardening stool, gloves, watering can, metal shovel, and an empty plant pot.

    I’ve always wanted one of those living willow houses. I finally realized it was beyond me and ordered this gazebo greenhouse kit – assembled it without the plastic exterior and grow vines on it.

    Last year I didn’t put down enough seeds, but this year we planted many more and I bought a clematis (the green vine you see here.)

    It may take some trial and error to get the right effect.

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