I Am Learning To Live In Synchrony With The Sun, Taking My Showers In The Afternoon When The Solar Heater

I am learning to live in synchrony with the sun, taking my showers in the afternoon when the solar heater has warmed the water, charging my phone during the day instead of at night, going to bed sooner and rising earlier to save electricity.

I am learning to live in synchrony with the seasons, spending more time outside in the summer, and more time inside studying in the winter, planting my seeds when the time is right, making wild garlic pesto in the spring, picking berries in the summer, collecting chestnuts as laundry detergent in the autumn.

I am learning to live in synchrony with myself, giving myself time to rest, accepting that the downs are a part of life as much as the ups, trusting that a period of low motivation will be followed by periods of inspiration and high energy.

I am learning that viewing life as cyclical instead of linear makes me feel more at ease with the inevitable changes that take place all around me.

straight up we gotta stop relying so much on electricity. the sheer amount of electricity we use is unsustainable. yes even solar panels yes even wind mills and water dams. indigenous ppl all over the world keep telling ppl how much the earth is being destroyed where they live just for the resources to produce them.

we need to find new ways of doing shit that doesnt rely so heavily on electricity (or utilize too much of one resource- like if you need wood to do something on a mass scale, ofc it'll cause deforestation.)

i'm not saying remove every single installed solar panel and never use electricity again, but we have to drastically change our lifestyles so we aren't constantly relying on so much electricity bc eventually we wont be able to produce as much, and then what? no more food in cities that rely on conventional farms that use electricity to harvest & process that food? no more ventilators in hospitals? jfc the lives we made are so fragile

Buy cheap art supplies. Draw and paint just to throw the pages away. Write in notebooks and documents only to file them away never to be edited. Sew and sculpt only to donate the results and reuse the materials. Create not for the product but for the process. Enjoy the act of making. Find how liberating it is not to have the pressure of the end result stopping you from starting in the first place.

not to be a hedonist but. pleasure IS the whole point, my loves. we are made for pleasure. humans have not survived out of spite or sheer grit or simply to make more humans. we live for pleasure. the pleasure of licking the last delicious crumbs off your fingers and feeling sunlight on your skin and massaging a loved one's shoulders. we're made to fill our bellies with delicious food, to nap in soft grass, to touch each other in joy and comfort.

there is no shame or guilt in our bodies doing what they were made to do. and we are made for pleasure.

a day at the bakery 🥯