Pinche Hand Cream

 

It was on my sister-in-law's holiday gift list. My moment to shine, for the quest is never ending.

1. Tulip (via Lizzy and Couls) 

2. Tatcha (via Meghan Markle and Oprah). 

Have there been others? For sure. But I can't remember, so happy am I with these current faves.

Caves In The Redwall

 

My friend, Nate, was invited as a cave specialist on a recent mapping and research expedition in the Grand Canyon exploring a cave system that few humans have ever been lucky enough to enter.

Among the wonders they encountered after free rappelling into (and jumaring out of) the entrance each day, were perfectly preserved bats in excess of 50,000 years old and fantasies of gypsum spun in the cool, still air of the cave. 

Mummified ancient foxes and other vertebrates attest to the unique role of caves as stable sanctuaries apart from, but connected to, the dynamic and often volatile exterior world. 

According To Spinoza

Conatus is the striving of each living thing to become itself. 

 

 

Emory Hall

 

i bloomed

out of the death

that found me.

can you still smell

the mud on me?

i reek

of resurrection.

Embroidery Journaling

 

 In January of 2020, Sophie O'Neill began embroidering a symbol to represent each day of her year. Cool to see a person's experience of time captured this way.