Urban Habitat

The Second Life of a Poem

Life’s been a slump as of late. Ths feeling of stuckness, of fighting up a hill that never ends when I can’t see the top… where to go from here? It’s unclear sometimes, even though I think I’m better than where I was a month or so ago. I have more projects, more things to do for joy than for some alterior purposeor just for money. Not that money is unimportant, or necessarily bad; it’s just that I want to do things for me, not for someone else’s dream to earn my keep, persay.

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  • invasives: mental compulsions & garlic mustard

    Garlic mustard is a non-native plant of the brassicaceae family that has taken over much of the woodland floors in western Pennsylvania. It actually has a beautiful fragility to it; it’s very easy to weed out by the root and boasts teenie white flowers. And because it’s invasive and aggressive, I and friends of mine…

  • seedlings and self-portraits: Plant & Artistic Updates

    First Foraging Foray! Well, technically. I sort of foraged with two friends a few months back but it was less about foraging and more about learning/experiencing the woods that day. But today, thanks to my city’s lovely parks program putting together guided walks with an herbalist, I did my first foraging and flower-eating! Well, okay,…

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  • fingerpainting: a brain dump

    This is a brain dump inspired by the fact that I got to fingerpaint a few days ago. Here’s the first thing I fingerpainted! I don’t know why logically but that first image, where there’s still a big white unpainted splotch, just catches my eye every time. And after this I went down to the…

  • walk with me through exposure therapy

    TW: OCD, blood, intrusive thoughts I’m about to do something that feels insane. My cat got a nosebleed all over my wall. I’m going to sit by the bloodstains and not clean them. Now, reader, I don’t know how that seems to you. To me when I tell myself that, my brain says things like…

  • little creature comforts

    With the roughness of my mental health as of late, and the forced productivity of daily life, I find it important to revel in the little creature comforts. I hope this post dins you wherever you’re at and that it reminds you it’s great to just enjoy things. So, a list of my little comforts…