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Good morning everyone!

Back at it again with another journal doodle from a somatic writing workshop I attended recently. I am so proud of myself for taking care of my body this morning with a filling breakfast, hot shower, dance party, and quick yoga. I also polished up eight new poems that I had drafted in my notes app. Today I hope to either soak up or create some flawed, silly, human art and reach out to my friends for some thoughtful company.

-Zoe

Hello all,

Yesterday I went on a float trip with a group of friends and it was very refreshing. We saw several softshell and painted turtles, a tiny crawdad, two small slugs eating watermelon, a heron's nest, a living and a dead butterfly (I think either pipevine or spicebush swallowtail), a couple of water snakes, and two catalpa sphinx caterpillars! I left my phone behind so I only got one picture, but it was worth it to be fully immersed in nature with my friends.

-Zoe

These passages from the first chapter of The Light Eaters by Zoe Schlanger about how moments of awareness in nature can often offer us access to “a flash of the real” has been staying with me this week as many of us have shared photos and writings about how plants and animals bring us joy and make us feel alive. So magical!!!

I’m still not far into this book yet btw but I recommend it! It’s written by a climate crisis reporter who got fed up with being depressed and decided to devote herself to researching plant consciousness!

-Ally

Hope everyone is having a stupendous saturday

-Kira

Hello everyone!

Today was very overstimulating, so I took some time to work in the garden and harvested my first basil leaf! It smelled so fragrant and I felt so proud of myself for taking good care of my plants, something that I am learning to do for the first time. I also have been composting a variety of leftovers (egg shells, produce scraps, weeds, tea bags, coffee grounds, etc.) and I am so excited to give food waste back to the earth. My favorite thing that I ate today was either raspberry sherbet or avocado toast. Hope everyone sleeps well! I know I could use the rest. Here is another silly doodle from my journal, a zebra girl with a refined sense of humor.

-Zoe

One step I took towards something I’m excited about is reaching out to a friend to join her private somatic therapy sessions to help heal my nervous system. I’m trying to be open to the idea that the step I took is enough.

-Victoria

Bumper sticker of the day from Rome

Today I am proud of myself for trying new things at work, asking questions when I needed help, and getting another poem published! I am grateful for rainstorms that always feel like they rinse my body out when I feel heavy and suffocated. Here is another doodle from my journal, a fancy man that I would not want to encounter in public.

-Zoe

-stephanie

A weary Wednesday but delights abound. What I heard today: “I might have joined a skee-ball league. I got the same score twice in a row and they said ‘That’s consisten-SKEE.” And “There’s flesh-eating bacteria in Florida. And it’s coming here!”

-Kira

-Ally

Good morning all!I have wanted to get back into creating silly doodles in my journal for a while and did this portrait of a crescent clown yesterday and wrote a little poem to accompany him. I am not sure if he is benevolent or mischievous, but I am fond of him either way.

-Zoe

Ciao,

I would like to add a video of the song I have been listening to,

it is an italian ode to freedom.

Placing here under the translation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZR_nM-42JE

Precious and fragile

Unstable and precarious

Clear and magnetic

Light as air

Always modern even when it's out of fashion

Always beautiful, walking down the street

On the horizon, behind the forehead

On the stage and behind the scenes

Train me, teach me to live with you

Long live freedom (long live)

Long live freedom

Long live freedom (long live)

Freedom

Long live live live

Magic word, put it into practice

Feel how beautiful it is, how difficult it is

And it never stops, it never rests

It has a thousand wrinkles but it is always young

It has scars here, open wounds there

But if she touches you, she will heal you

It has soft lips, very strong arms

And if she hugs you, she will free you

Long live freedom (long live)

Long live freedom

I will defend you, sweetest mother

Highly demanding, phantasmagoric

Athletic, magnetic

Volatile and poetic

Women and men, human beings

Wild plants and all animals

Free spirits, wherever you are

Come alive, manifest yourselves

I want it here for me, I want it here for you

I want it even for those who don't want it for themselves

Difficult times, sometimes tragic

You have to believe and never give up

-Maria

fuzzy purple flowers and a very tall cactus that looks like it’s giving a hug!

-Helen

Fruits I saw on my walk

-Helen

My heart feels broken open but at least tomatoes are growing out. I’m grateful that in times of grief, my first instinct is to grow things. My dog passed away last week, I took him on one last sniff walk and planted native flowers wherever he sniffed. I hope when I walk our usual route, I can see the glimmers I planted for myself, especially when I miss him most. I planted a bunch of corn with him in his last week as well, he supervised, sniffing the bed while I worked. It’s blue corn, the seeds look like little blue gems. Yesterday I noticed small, inch tall stalks pushing out towards the sky. It makes me miss him, and love the world more. I am so sad and have been struggling to stick to a word for this week. Awe and amazement feel really big, and presence is difficult. I’m trying to tap in as I feel any emotion, comfortable and uncomfortable and make sure to take the time to feel them. I’ve been supported so much by my friends and family this week, that’s really going to just have to be my focus for now. It’s exciting to see things shift, even if my type A brain likes a single intention or theme so I know that I’m “doing it”.

Sending out love from me, and my tomatoes and corn growing in Colorado -Emma

(Also maybe unrelated but here is a baby hummingbird nest in the tree near my house with two babies. Thought you might like to see! I hope it sparks some joy)

-Stephanie

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