#journal 2023

[birch-bark-scribbles]

Family Christmas survived. I'm finally home!

Beyond the family stresses this visit highlighted, I found myself very weighed on by the change of biome. This was my very first time visiting the Sonoran Desert (or any desert at all), after growing up on the US east coast. I can count on my hands the number of times I've traveled west of the Appalachians. I found the desert itself very beautiful and inspiring, but the city itself seems like an act of violence against that landscape, making itself an ugly and depressing place in the process. I found the trip to be, overall, very disquieting yet instructive.

As soon as I stepped out of the plane, I felt like my eyeballs were drying out. That was a bizarre and unsettling experience. My skin went straight to hell from the dry air; even though it actually rained twice while we were visiting! It wasn't enough to stop my arms from going straight to eczema hell, no matter how often I moisturized. On the most basic physical level, my body hated being there. I guess I've gotten spoiled on mountain well water, because even the water tasted horrible (to me). I felt like I was being slowly fried like a potato chip and I have never in my life been so grateful to return to the wet, the cold, and the green.

Kind of petty complaints, I know. I've grown up in forested biomes and known more or less nothing else, so of course I wouldn't appreciate it, but still. I got the feeling looking around at the city and from talking to my sister that no one else actually likes living in the desert cities, either. All of their architecture and infrastructure is built to survive the heat and pretend that they do not live in a desert. Other people are better qualified than me to talk about the horrifying water misuse that colonization has imposed in the American Southwest so I won't rant about it, but I will say that many of those problems are glaringly obvious even to a newcomer, and it deepened the ugliness of the place. The antipathy between city and the natural systems keeping it alive was visible in every ugly inch, lessened only in those places that embraced the desert for what it is.

I know it sounds as though I hated it, and to be honest, for the most part I did. Except! For the brief hike we took, out in the desert, under the unreadable gaze of these impossibly massive rocks. The saguaros were an intensely powerful presence in the land, to my limited sensibilities. Everything I learned about their life cycle and their place in the desert systems (especially their alliance with palo verde trees) left me speechless with awe. What a powerful and beautiful place that desert is, when it's not ripped up and covered in cement, or turf on life support. The minimally managed desert in the state park was sparsely vegetated, with muted colors. Everything there amplified the presence of the incredible, towering red rocks that dominated the landscape. It made me understand why people would live here and love the land. The mountains seemed to me equally awe-inspiring and unwelcoming. The entire place felt unfriendly to me, but to be frank, it had no reason to be otherwise. The antipathy was mutual; I could feel in my bones that I didn't belong there. I appreciated its austere beauty, I thanked it, and I left. I'm glad to have had the experience, but I do not intend to return.

#the family nonsense is being saved for my actual diary #I have a rock as a memento and if I ever get a sunroom I will keep an singular cactus to remind me of this place #but that is quite enough #my skin is slowly calming and my cat was overjoyed to see us. home <3333333333333 #journal 2023

[yellowsubiesdance]

finally got my crew assignment!!

#i’m so excited tbh #i’m really doing the damn thing #school behavior #journal 2023

[animar64]

BYE BYE NOVEMBER

Artist Unknown Can you believe it? I have had to take some down time from writing because my day job’s responsibilities were expanded. So after 20 plus years I have to learn stuff that had nothing to do with my department. To be honest, it’s a relief to do something new- plus I get to be a desk jockey now- which is something I have never done before, but I did want to focus on learning an entire…

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[demiiwhiffin]

flat babbit <3

#handsome man #my art #journal #2023

[bun-bujo]

LOGROS DE JUNIO DE 2023

·  cortarme el pelo

·  encontrar veterinario nuevo para moca

·  seguir con el fanzine 2 y empezar fanzine 1

·  ir económicamente más relajada in some way

·  pedir cita en el médico

·  terminar parte 1 del fic

·  llegar a las 50k en el fic, publicar ch.5, terminar ch.7 y casi 8

·  empezar el opo summer arc

·  volver a dejar de morderme las uñas

·  comer más fruta

·  empezar un libro

·  tirar dibujos viejos

·  comprar art supplies

·  identificar mi stimming

 FAVORITOS DE JUNIO DE 2023

❤ comer melón

❤ ir al mar 

❤ la limonada y la leche merengada

❤ la acuarela de grafito

❤ los días de truenos y palomitas

❤ subrayar libros

❤ bsd season 5 trailer

❤ los directos de emma y dani

❤ la música

#journal #journal 2023

[amatchakitkat]

This is where I will continue 2023

#Mon journal et Notebook #Mon journal et Notebook 2023 #2023 #diary #diary 2023 #Notebook 2023 #journal #Journal 2023 #a matcha Kitkat2♡ #a matcha Kitkat2 #a matcha Kitkat #note

[druggeddraccus]

finished the pants!!

#visible mending #2023 dayss #may 29 2023 #embroidery #jordyn’s journal

[zegalba]

Serena in Document Journal (2023) Photography: Ben Toms

#Document Journal #Document #serena #flowers #photography #Ben Toms #white #beauty #2023

[wintersangels69]

Sunday, April 9. If God ever places down a cleansing fire upon this Earth, Santa Barbara will be the first to go! Hopefully. :-)

#journal 2023

[patiak]

MADE TO ORDER! Cosmic notebook! 

You can choose count of pages and dominant colour. The journal not be the exactly the same like on these photo. Each journal is unique and no two are exactly alike.

check it out: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1353674049/made-to-order-cosmic-notebook-journal?click_key=41404e79c513f3e8584585f740a8e5a67eb067b3%3A1353674049&click_sum=315022da&ref=shop_home_active_1&frs=1&sca=1&sts=1

#cosmos #notebook #journal #stars #nebula #cosmos journal #nasa #universe #planner #planner 2023 #notebook 2023 #journal 2023 #journal diary #diary #writting #journaling #artjournal

[die-rosastrasse]

October collages in my art journal 🕷️🕸️

old books, paper, gouache, ink; X 2023

#art #inktober #halloween #october #original art #spooky art #creepy art #dark aesthetic #creepy aesthetic #october art challenge #october aesthetic #inktober 2023 #art journal #dark academia #dark academia art #gothic art #gothic aesthetic #collage art #halloween vibes #halloween 2023 #my art #original artwork #original artists #spiders #insects #dark art #paper art #collage #halloween art #halloween aesthetic

[birch-bark-scribbles]

Meditation on the Winter Solstice and Grief. 12/20/23

Winter's silence is a space for deep healing. It brings rest as welcome as clean water to the thirsty. It is a pause and a respite. The season can be harsh: don't make it harsher. Walk lightly so as not to slip on the ice. Let the cold soothe the pain. The grief. The loss. Let the feelings transform like water into whorls of ice. Let them melt and run down your face, or sublimate in the sun. Trust. Wait. Breathe. Feel the steadiness of the rock. Don't try to control the water cycle, how your feelings heave and freeze and thaw. Lean into the foundation, the bedrock. The healing must reach everywhere. Not just the skin but the bone. Light the hearthfires and love them. Rejoice that even in the depth of bitter loss, life moves: water and fire in the heart of the Earth.

#journal 2023 #Winter Solstice

[yellowsubiesdance]

so my friend was driving around running errands w me in the car, and he drives stick shift. and i noticed he would wiggle the stick every time he stopped. so i finally asked him what it was, and after he told me about it, he was like “how did you notice that?? that is such a small movement, you Are autistic,” and i laughed so hard for like a solid minute, i cannot stop thinking about it

#for context i’ve told him that i suspect i have autism #and he’s always asked me like ‘are you serious? how can you be sure? etc.’ #not like rudely or anything. just like. confused how i came to that conclusion for myself i guess #he’s more nt so i can understand given that he’s not usually around nd people #but when he said that he was just so certain #that’s why it made me laugh. bc he was like ‘that’s the final straw. you’re definitely autistic’ #and he joked later and was like ‘now that you’re diagnosed autistic…’ like his confirmation was the diagnosis #he’s just very funny and makes me laugh and i have a big dumb crush on him or whatever #he makes me feel seen yknow?? #journal 2023 #i don’t really do journal posts anymore but i want to remember this

[animar64]

Another Universe

“Lunar Wind” by Alex Andree Cards on the table time. I signed up for Disney Plus  a few weeks ago so that I could watch the anniversary Doctor Who specials and the upcoming  Doctor Who series. I didn’t expect I would watch much beyond that until I got sucked in the MCU Universe  and now I am watching the Captain America movies and I the Mandorlorian Series ( I loved it- actually I love Carl…

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[demiiwhiffin]

flat ted <3

#handsome man also #2023 #my art #journal

[bun-bujo]

LOGROS DE MAYO DE 2023

·  dibujar MUCHÍSIMO

·  ir a la biblioteca

·  seguir con el fanzine 

·  hacer una entrevista de trabajo lol

·  tener una alumna nueva

·  apuntarme a la convocatoria de auxiliares, h-e-l-p

·  llegar a las 40k en el fic, publicar ch.4, terminar ch.6 y casi 7

·  planificar el opo summer arc

·  reformar el espacio de estudio

·  ordenar las cuentas de ig

·  hitear más likes en tumblr con study things

·  hitear likes y follows en tiktok con dibujos

·  comprar gafas de sol

 FAVORITOS DE MAYO DE 2023

❤ el mental health break

❤ ir al mar x2

❤ pintar con rotuladores y grises

❤ ropa nueva de verano que todavía no me puedo poner

❤ los días de tormenta

❤ las apps de notas del ipad

❤ imprimir los apuntes

❤ llamadas con amigas

❤ love is gonna get you killed but pride is gonna be the end of you

❤ sskk reunion!!!!! Dazai half alive-half dead

#journal #journal 2023