"No Matter How Old You Get, May You Always Stop To Fill Your Pockets With Smooth Stones, Empty Snail

"No matter how old you get, may you always stop to fill your pockets with smooth stones, empty snail shells & other little treasures."

-Nicolette Gooder

“Maybe it was the smell of ripe tomatoes, or the oriole singing, or that certain slant of light on a yellow afternoon and the beans hanging thick around me. It just came to me in a wash of happiness that made me laugh out loud, startling the chickadees who were picking at the sunflowers, raining black and white hulls on the ground. I knew it with a certainty as warm and clear as the September sunshine. The land loves us back. She loves us with beans and tomatoes, with roasting ears and blackberries and birdsongs. By a shower of gifts and a heavy rain of lessons. She provides for us and teaches us to provide for ourselves. That’s what good mothers do.”

— Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass

Imaginary Spaces 59 (2024)

I’ve named this Half-Ass Relish because it’s a bunch of small quantities of vegetables all mixed 😂

🚨Proud maker alert🚨

I stumbled across these adorable Pop Tart book sleeves on Etsy last week. After tallying up over $60 to have two of them sent to me (reasonable, but I'm a SAHM), I decided to spend that same amount on a crochet class over the weekend and made two myself! A mixed berry for my Kindle, and a funfetti for my eldest son's chapter books. I'm thrilled I was able to learn a useful new life skill while supporting a local yarn shop.