Basics

sometimes I'm like how do people get going with only 30 minutes in the morning, it takes me that long just to feed my cat, give him his insulin, use the bathroom, and start water heating for coffee/tea. that doesn't even get to making/eating/putting away food, taking my medications, drinking the coffee/tea, brushing my teeth/washing my face, and getting dressed.

I know some part of it is the labor thing where you can outsource some of it (buy coffee/breakfast someone else made instead of making it yourself to save time) or neglect your body (skip coffee/breakfast instead of making it to save time), and another part is the disability thing (not needing to deal w insulin shots & medications that need to be taken with food before you can start the day).

but man, I wish our culture/society was built to accommodate long slow mornings because despite a good number of people being able to get out of bed & be ready to start (commuting to) work within 30 mins, I don't think it's good collectively for us to be setting up schedules that require that. It's so unsustainable.

by ansleyalchemy

“Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery smoothly transferring you into another world. It doesn’t have to be a walk during which you’ll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no other brain ever managed to encounter. Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but ‘steal’ some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.”

— Albert Camus, Notebooks 1951-1959

just thinking of how our meaning or purpose in life is merely to experience. eating an orange segment, hoping for snow, being in love, returning over and over to one painting, stepping outside for the full moon, submersion in water, having a favourite colour, knowing beauty, feeling alone, feeling connected, feeling longing… it is enough. 

Why are ‘witch tips’ always like “use quartz as a substitute for any crystal!” and not the good stuff like “River spirits are almost always looking to fuck shit up, so if you rile em up and then feed them a name, they’ll lay someone tf out.”

Always cleanse your cards 🕯️🍃🥀

Source: photo from unsplash by Kayla Maurais

life is for taking therapeutic walks and being in your own bubble and reading books in bed and drinking iced beverages and eating fruit and gaining new experiences and dozing in sunlight and finding love in everything and not letting guilt consume your life actually