June & July
I finished A Very Easy Death by Simon De Beuvoir. Its a fast read that took me a long time to want to pick up. I have grown up taught to except death as it comes. Within my family there are health conditions that have seen better days in the recent years and its not an easy thing to experience. So you could imagine picking up a book about the last few days of the authors mothers life was something I was a bit uncertain I could handle. But I got through it and it was a beautiful telling of pain and comfort in family that spoke directly to me.
For my birthday I got myself Ed Templeton’s 87 Portraits, from the Arcana bookstore. I missed the day he had a book signing but luckily they had some more shipped in.
My sweet sweet Sol sent me a card game for my birthday, I haven’t played it with friends yet but it looks exciting!
Plants pictured: A pothos plant I grew from just the nodes of my moms 40 year old pothos! A pink syngonium, and a new Pothos N’ joy I got from leimert park.
Many many beach days, as many beach days as I can get in a week! This is something very very new to me and I plan on writing a bit more about it but being at the beach in a bathing suit, just loving myself and not hating my existence in this vessel is something i’ve never experienced until this year. Ive struggled with body dymporphia my entire life, from outside perceptions of me that have distorted how I see my body. Its a beautiful thing to feel more comfortable than I ever have.
I had a glaze day at the studio, got some pieces out of the final kiln and built this nomster planter!
and last but certainly not least, I rode a bike for the very first time in my adult life, invigorating to say the least. Also, terrifying but I felt like my childhood traumas were healing.
