"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

Third year Instagram-free;

I've had two babies

Taken up gardening

Reading more

Unbecoming who I thought I was

Becoming who I'm meant to be

10/10 would recommend

First day since deleting Instagram;

I did a lot more laundry

I also sat in grass/clover and made a little flower crown🌼

10/10

oh to be a little frog swimming amongst the pondweed

Knitting is great it's just a fidget toy and periodically you get a scarf or some shit

Tuesdays and Thursdays are for sensory play! My 5 month old had much more fun with whipped cream while my 16 month old currently prefers to tinker in the garden.

“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