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Another spread from my junk journal. Finally had the nerve to use a mushroom postcard I got three years ago, haha. I’m too guilty of holding onto paper bits for too long!
Back to my junk journal, with its riot of vintage papers and paper flowers. Hope everyone is having a good week so far!
My first read of the year ended up being a slog despite my initial excitement, and a disappointment. I’ve been a fan of Smith’s personal essays in the past—CHANGING MY MIND was an especially heartfelt collection—but FEEL FREE is a haphazard jumble that only seems to serve to put together her freelance work. It was discomfiting, too, to find her aloof and at-a-distance: After a skim here and there, I finally gave up on the book when she wrote about not being the sort of person who kept a diary—we had nothing in common, sure, but Smith never tries (hardly ever cares) to reach across to the reader or offer a more generous account of what it’s like from her side of things. That’s what this book lacks: Generosity, feeling—heart.
Second week of 2019! Simple spread, hopefully offset by the pain in the ass that is fussy-cutting two chrysanthemums. This last week’s inadvertent theme was, surprisingly, finding ease in slowness—a Herculean feat for the restless and the anxious.
A few more peeks into my junk journal spreads from over the hazy aftermath of the holidays. I found myself having trouble returning to scribbly-form—and so have been thankful, yet again, for this book’s forgiving nature.
Sharing a few pages of my junk journal, scribbled in hastily and haphazardly during the holiday haze.
Finally caught up posting my TN spreads, haha. Here’s the first week of 2019—which, ten days in, has been suspiciously kind. *squints in suspicious*
My December 2018 at a glance. It was a month of transitions, a much-needed waking up to soul-gladness and ever-lovely days.
Hello! Dusting off this feed with the last spread of 2018, a recap of another lovely over-the-holidays handful of days.
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