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  • fingerpainting: a brain dump

    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 Read more

  • walk with me through exposure therapy

    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 Read more

  • 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 Read more

  • serendipity, & god.

    For once I check a notification from my phone and it’s my zodiac app saying: This period may seem overwhelming, upsetting, and intense, but it’s an important initiation. It will be hard at first, but by the end of this cycle, if you consciously choose to participate, you’ll emerge stronger and more empowered for having Read more

  • little things of the week: paragraphs

    (1) I made tie-dye shortbread cookies for a coworker. I beat the butter with a metal whisk and rolled the dough with my washed hands. Pinwheels of reds and pinks and blues and greens formed lightly at the centers. I packaged the cookies and delivered them and met a friend; a being, like me, of Read more

  • money

    money

    I’ll bet that title got your attention. If you want money more than anything, you’ll be bought and sold your whole life.” Rumi There is much guilt that surrounds finances for me. We as a society have moved so far from trade of meaningful goods; we worship green paper like salvation. We choose values over Read more