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
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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
Read more: The Wheel of TimeGrowing 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:
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.
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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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“I feel really lucky that I had some good role models of people who seemed to be devoted parents and artists at the same time. I don’t think I needed so much to know how they did it — it seems impossible to generalize how one does it, because everyone’s context/family/situation is so wildly different — it was just enough to know that it could be done, that it was possible to be a decent parent and a decent artist at the same time, and that, maybe, being good at one could even help you be better at the other.”
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I’ve had a tab open for kening zhu’s post about rituals vs. sprints for nearly a month. It reminds me about something Katherine May once said on a podcast* about the cycle of neurodivergent hyperfocus and recovery. Versus a neurotypical ideal of consistency. It’s something I am still figuring out. Having experienced burn out I find I need to be careful of flying too close to the sun. But trying to force a structure that doesn’t align with my capacity is also not right. I’d love to hear other thoughts on this.
* I can’t seem to find the podcast episode I’m talking about. 🤦
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“a conscious choice to be happy is a form of resistance…”
“You’re allowed to cultivate joy. In fact, you need to, because our job is to build the world that we want.”