(and everyone inhabiting this wild, fast-paced, convoluted & woolly world)
- 1. Books. Seriously. In the world of endless scrolling & flitting, a book is a solace, a citadel & a soother. A single sense experience that entices all others & shuts out the outside world. Stories are medicine, & also food for our neural connections, & channels for our true selves.
- 2. Making. My primary self-care practices are Earth -bound, physical: cooking from scratch, craft projects big & small, gardening. They are the original magical arts: transforming something into something else, a simple alchemical process. Flour to bread. Seed to plant. Yarn to knit.
- 3. The EARTH. Wildcrafting, walking, rowing, watching the clouds, grounding out with bare feet to the soil, arms to the trunk & fingers through the leaves.
- 4. Water. My and many other people's anci...