Dance with Daffodils

An exercise in touching grass and doing other things to make us more human

[sixty-silver-wishes]

folk music: "I have faced generations of oppression and mourn my lost love and country, but my culture will persist and survive"

also folk music: "I am going to drink so much alcohol you don't understand. literally So much alcohol"

also folk music: "oops I killed my husband lol"

also folk music: "shit I should have married that girl. too bad she keeps ignoring me every time I try to break into her house"

also folk music: "I feel an unimaginable grief for a past I can never return to" also folk music: "fiddle dee doodle diddle deedle deedle dee"

[valarinde]

we need to hang on to things that mark the passage of time or we will collectively go crazy i'm not even joking

[valarinde]

we need to buy seasonal vegetables for our table we need to decorate for our chosen holidays we need to engage with a weekly show we need to have semi-regular meal times we need to write down friends' birthdays and have movie night and attend fairs we need to change the flowers on our balcony with plants that can survive the cold and get soil under our fingernails we need to be able to plan and wait and anticipate and find comfort and joy in things leaving but returning we need RITUALS to survive

[farbeyondinjoyofheart]

My life has been an absolute shambles, but I grew 5 different kinds of tomatoes and a Beautiful, New, and Exciting Type of Pepper (both of which vegetables largely take care of themselves) and my oregano TOOK OVER my herb garden so I discovered that oregano pesto is just as good as the basil sort and quite easy to freeze.

It is harvest festival/Oktoberfest season.

"And through thick woods one finds a stream astray

So secret that the very sky seems small–"

[lilaccatholic]

Oh to be eleven years old and finding a life-changing obscure paperback in the library

[brightdeadthing]

Come. And Be My Baby, Maya Angelou

[zenpencils]

James Rhodes - Is that not worth exploring?

[hanneflute-deactivated20190107]

This made me cry a little. The number of people who tell me they used to play the flute but that they weren’t ‘talented’ enough or they gave it up to, you know, do life… This is just so beautiful.

[walkingbomb]

reminder to:

straighten your back

go pee goddAMN IT STOP HOLDING IT

go take your meds if you need to

drink some water

go get a snack if you havent eaten in a while

maybe wander around the house/stretch a little if you’ve been sat at the computer a while (artists especially: sTRETCH THOSE WRISTS)

reply to that text/message from earlier you’d forgotten about

maybe send a nice lil message to someone having a bad day?

[mouthfullofsxnd]

I just would like to thank everyone who ever reblogs this so that it somehow ends up back on my dash because I usually need the reminder (especially the drinking water one)

[ashlgcostumes]

Truly I hate to do this to you all but; you can watch all the videos and read all the blogs in the world but you cannot learn to sew without at some point picking up a piece of fabric and fucking it up. No tutorial exists that will stop you at some point ruining this poor piece of cloth. The visceral act of holding a project and wondering where you went wrong is the only way to learn sewing; you cannot escape it. I’m sorry

[farbeyondinjoyofheart]

Almost every skill is like this!! You can't learn a language without going through a phase of choppy, butchered grammar and inaccurate vocabulary. You can't learn an instrument without sounding like a dying cat. You can't learn carpentry without destroying a piece of wood and probably slicing into your hand a little. It is STILL WORTH IT.

[thewayfaringowl]

The World Is Too Much With Us

The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;— Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not. Great God! I’d rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. - William Wordsworth (1807)

[farbeyondinjoyofheart]

(image description: purple flower bordered list titled "Touch Grass Challenge")

🌹Watch the sunrise or sunset

🌺Pick some flowers/weeds & put them in a vase

🌷Spend 2 hrs in a non-temp-controlled place

🪷Make tea or coffee for a friend by hand

🌸Whistle or hum in public

🏵️ Pet or feed an animal

🪻Walk there instead of driving

🌻 Have a spoken conversation with a friend

🌼 Read a physical book

🍁 Share a little treat with someone

🍄 Mend a piece of clothing

🌱 Go one week without using AI

🍃 Ask someone to tell you their favorite joke

🌵 Learn a folksong in a different language (at least the refrain)

🪾 Handwrite a letter and send it

🌲 Get your hands dirty

🪺 Visit a library

🏔️ Learn a stranger's name and call them by it

❄️ Play peekaboo/make silly faces at a baby

🌈 Draw something (doesn't matter if it's good)

🌤️ Say hello to an insect. Do not squish it.

🌜 Wear your favorite outfit and compliment someone else's

✨ Write a poem that rhymes (doesn't matter if it's good)

🌟 If you hear music in public, do a little dance

🦋 Try to make something from scratch instead of buying it

🐾 Take a nap

🍓 Sing with a friend

🥖 Do a fiber craft (sew, knit, crochet, embroider, etc)

🧀 Interact with people civilly when you'd rather be alone

🥮 Bake something and share it

🫖 Take a day without social media/the news

🏕️ Go to an in-person social gathering with strangers