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The universe has a sense of humor and it’s laughing with you not at you.
Also, not my cupcake. I found it on the ground like this. Abandoned.
Mar 16, 2025
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this is an amazing depiction of what it feels like to tell your friends you’re doing amazing when you’re visibly falling apart
Mar 16, 2025
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I think the universe revels in it. A kind of organised chaos or chaos in organisation. Winging it and still getting there. Anyway, there’s also the Japanese term for pursuing the “perfectly imperfect” aka wabi sabi and also it’s in this site’s name which is just…🦋✨
whatever, I support that.
Jun 19, 2024
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and something good happens
maybe the universe is telling me i’m not the problem
Dec 1, 2024
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I have a friend who told me recently that “rejection is protection” and I think about that every time something doesn’t work out. You’re being protected from something and maybe even saved for something better. Once you tap into that mindset, the heartache and disappointment become tolerable.
You will get rejected from all sorts of places / people along your walk of life, don’t fight it, roll with it, and get excited for what comes next.
Mar 26, 2025
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I’m not a parent and do not plan to be. Kids can wear me out fast with their high energy and noise level; it leaves me very over-stimulated. But it’s pretty extreme when people say they ”hate kids” and I often feel it’s a reflection of their childhood and beliefs around how kids “should be.” That they were expected to be quiet, obedient, and out of the way by their parents when they were little.
It’s fucking hard to be a kid. You’re dealing with a rapidly-changing body and underdeveloped brain, managed by flawed adults who are enforcing boundaries that you do not understand. It’s confusing and hard to manage your feelings and honestly just a lot.
People are impatient with kids when they‘re brand new to the world and figuring it all out, and this is a time kids need a friend the most. Children can also be teachers to adults with how they are less habituated to the world. They teach us how to be free and open-hearted and silly and imaginative.
A good practice is to be kinder and gentler with kids. If that feels difficult, start with gentleness toward your inner child. Maybe that’s the child in your life that needs your attention and kindness most.
Apr 16, 2025
I meant to post this yesterday. Absolutely beautiful morning for walk.
This morning is also beautiful but in a spring rain kind of way.
Mar 23, 2025
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Prescriptive gender is a prison. Rather than gender being a form of self-expression, gender is treated as a pass/fail test for how well you can conform to cultural expectations.
Since I was young, I remember feeling a great deal of pressure to conform to these expectations around what “men” are meant to be. You like sports, cars, womanizing, aggression, and not having feelings. I felt so distant from this ideal. I was sensitive and shy, and I preferred spending my time being creative in some way
For a long time, I felt like I was failing at “being a man.” In many ways I was! Because I didn’t need to bea man. All I needed to be was myself.
It’s taken me a long time to separate myself from prescriptive gender, sharpening in on which aspects of masculine energy I identify with and which I don’t. I’m not done yet. Maybe I will never fully be. The self continues to evolve over time, and I suspect aspects of my gender will too.
Mar 15, 2025