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.

  • Small Progress is Progress 🐌

    We’re still under the weather so a gentle update today. The title comes from a small work I collected from neurodivergent artist Meg Fatharly. It’s a nice reminder when live starts life-ing and I have to slow down the pace.

    How it Feels to Me

    Gracie’s finished up all the interior edits for How it Feels to Me.

    We’ve been dialing in some of the spreads to make them as clear as possible.

    Illustration of a graph showing senses. On the left senses are red (siren blaring, itchy clothing), then a hand turns a dial and senses becoming more balanced going to yellow and green.

    We’re one copyright page away from the final copy edits!

    Thanks to everyone who’s joined the launch team. 🦋 🐝 🐞

    Looking Closely

    Lately I’ve been photographing some of the residents of our backyard (including the snail up above.) My kid is really into animals and I’ve learned to identify ladybug eggs, larva, and pupa.

    This is a pupa! I didn’t even realize ladybugs pupate (or ladybirds for my UK friends).

    Ladybug pupa on a green leaf

    Our wildflower patch is also flourishing! We’ve just started seeing the first fireflies of the summer.

    Blue bachelor buttons growing in a large patch beside a wooden fence
    White Nigella or Love in a Mist flower with lacy petails, curling seed pod and feathery leaves
    Blue Nigella or Love in a Mist flower with lacy petails, curling seed pod and feathery leaves

    10/10 would recommend planting a chaos garden. We bought three packs of seeds over 7 years ago and they just keep coming back stronger.

    Somehow by doing so we created a firefly habitat even though this is just one third of our backyard.

    Time Travel banner. Hand drawn illustrtation of TARDIS in space surrounded by swirling lines and stars.

    Instead of writing a new post this week I migrating my post about Intentional Inconsistency over from Substack.

    Holding a stack of journaling inserts in my art studio. The top one is rumpled.
    Intentional Inconsistency

    If you’ve never read this one I wrote it for fellow recovering perfectionists. There’s also a ramble podcast if you’d prefer to listen.

    That’s all for this week. When my voice comes back I’m planning to record a new solo podcast. Are there any topics about neurodivergence you’d like me to podcast about?

    Sarah signed with a swoopy S

    P.S. I’ve also taken some adorable photos of a friendly jumping spider. I’ll put it after a space for anyone who has a spider phobia. For the rest of you… How cute is this little guy?

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  • Poem above illustration of Pooh, Piglet and Christopher Robin. Text reads: The End When I was One, I had just begun. When I was Two, I was nearly new. When I was Three, I was hardly me. When I was Four, I was not much more. When I was Five, I was just alive. But now I am six, I'm as clever as clever So I think I'll be six now Forever and ever.
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  • A little scrappy gardening vlog.

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  • Wildflowers growing in our backyard with fence and tree beyond. Most are royal blue bachelor buttons. Little tufts with the sky beyond. White Love-in-a-Mist are shorter. They are ethereal flowers with delicate leaves and spiraling center that transforms into a seed pod. These flowers evoke fairyland to me.
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  • Chaos Gardening: Tips from a Chronically Ill & Neurodivergent Gardener

    Chaos Gardening black and white zine among blooming daisies in my garden. The title is cut out magazine letters and peony leaf rubbings are overlaid. The subtitle readers: tips from a chronically ill and neurodivergent gardener.

    I think I’m finding my groove with zine making. I had a lot of fun going analogue this month and in addition to my typewriter I also incorporated collage and nature rubbings.

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    The back of the zine. You can read some text typed on my typewriter and see peony leaf rubbings. The text reads: VI. No dig• A few strategies I use to minimize pain are: No dig garden beds (areas with soil piled on cardboard). Cardboard lined raised beds. A low gardeningstool (B to avoid back pain & dizziness). Suppressing weeds (minimizing weeding) with cardboard or spare paving stones. Anything that will block sunlight & not blow away will do. A Kindle Curiosity Zine. May 2025.

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  • Survivor CBS screencap. Eva confides to Joe, "There are times when I get super overstimulated, I call them episodes. I'll be stuck in a loop in my head and the thing that I need to do it to get grounded. What I need from you is getting squeezed. Take my hands and squeeze as much as possible." The second image shows Joe and Eva forehead to forehead squeezing her hands to coregulate.

    This season of Survivor was close to my heart.

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  • I thought my character flaws were all the times I made mistakes.

    Turns out my character flaw was believing I could be perfect.

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  • Therapeutic weeding. The front bed is overrun with witch grass because I wasn’t well enough to garden last year, but reclaiming it one patch at a time. Excited about our first sea holly – it’s a variety called Hobbit.

    Runner grass surrounding plants in the garden bed. My rainboot, a narrow widger, and a sea holly are also visible.
    Mulch surrounding sea holly, sage, and russian sage with tall grass growing beyond.
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  • Fence of treated wood opens on a patch of blue and white wildflowers in our backyard under a gray cloudy sky.
    Blue and white wildflowers with a mown path leading to a fence of treated wood.

    I really prefer British style fences, but with the wildflowers blooming I am coming around to ours.

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  • Laptop with yellow hobbit hole wallpaper. An edison bulb lamp sheds a dim golden glow on a goddess vase filled with pens. The workspace is otherwise shrouded in darkness.

    Have I mentioned I set up a desk in our living room? I’ve been using it since January or February. It was especially nice when the severe winter weather meant I couldn’t use the studio.

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