Although today is the last day of the year, this isn’t an end of year post. Because like most years, it ends not with a bang but a whisper. And that’s okay. Not typing up a long year-end review and article length post about what 2022 was. It was a life. I lived. I’m here doing the best I can…
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I took these pages of notes while listening to a podcast on chronic illness. Putting pen to paper helps me to listen more intentionally, and leaves me with some documentation of the things I learned that I can refer back to later. Diagrams and lists and arrows and different styles of lettering are all good visual cues for my memory….
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This is a tiny instalment in the hiking diaries series. It was more of a long walk than a hike really. I almost didn’t include it here, this was over a month ago now. But I will, because any intentional time spent in nature and being active is important for brain health. It doesn’t need to live up to some…
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Sweetgrass is best planted not by seed, but by putting roots directly in the ground. Thus the plant is passed from hand to earth to hand across years and generations. Its favored habitat is sunny, well-watered meadows. It thrives along disturbed edges. Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass Typewritten on Japanese calligraphy paper with a vintage Groma Kolibri typewriter.
I’ve lost the rhythm of creativity, productivity, most things to be honest. One sure sign is the lack of regular posts in this space. It’s okay, sometimes a lot of life happens all at once and knocks things off kilter. But rhythm, predictability and an even-tempered flow … all of these things are friends, actually necessities, of the migraine brain….
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