spring warmth
let it in!
Greetings from sunny and warm Washington state. HOME. The weather has shifted and I’ve come home to the most glorious blue sky and sun sparkle on water that has lasted day after day. Spring itself is reviving me, especially all the blossom on the trees. I saw my first full-on blooming cherry of the year. It is such an exceptional experience every time. This particular cherry was quite old and established with moss. There was blue sky behind it and the sun shining through the petals. Pure joy.
Speaking of Spring! I have chosen some of the weeds from the calendar to release as prints! I have been working with Girlie Press in Seattle and they are printing several different images for me. I am thrilled to open pre-orders in honor of spring! Prints are 8 x 10”, a very easy-to-frame size, on lovely 120lb paper and will be shipping in the first week of April! I’ve only recently been experimenting with prints, and so this feels like a big deal! It always feels scary to invest in something new. If you would like to pre-order, here is a link! Please note that I won’t be shipping prints, or anything else until the first week of April- I’m in WA until then.
Meanwhile, the rush of spring is sweeping me up in its large, rolling wave and I am half drunk on sunshine a lot of the time. Life goes on- appointments for dad, ordering his Ubers and trying to see all the lovely people that I want to see while I’m home. Trying to be brave for two saltwater dips per week…(I might be in right now, if you are reading this early on Tuesday morning! ) But for now, from my bedroom window, I’m watching the Varied Thrush searching for her breakfast in the yard and that always feels like a special gift. Being home is always restorative for me, even if it’s busy, I still refill my cup. Sleeping in my old bed in my post-college studio with all the old art on the walls, seeing the old bulbs come up, primroses in the lawn, all these things reinforce who I am to myself and give me comfort and strength to keep going. Saltwater and the sun on it, the trees that continue up, up, up into the sky, I’ll take all I can get of of it.
I haven’t got everything on my lists done, but I’m letting there be more room for rest and more time for processing life and being with loved ones. When looking at my list the other day, chatting to Anna, we laughed about not having put space on the calendar for so-and-so having a meltdown, or the amount of the week one might need to cry or even just rest. It’s possible we might need to write these things in so we give them the value of time they deserve too. Maybe fewer things per day on the list and one of them needs to be emotional? Is this a good place to start?
I’ve continued with my tiny journal for the hundred day project. I have no idea what day we are on anymore, and I can’t say it always brings me joy, but I am trucking along, because I set an actually achievable goal for once. It does feel good to look back and remember the time spent outside and what was happening. I think it will be a great thing to reference next year when I want to know if the spring is coming early or late and compare it the years before (something that occupies a good deal of every February and March).
I hope you all have found your way into spring with room for noticing beauty. I hope the sun warms you all the way through into your heart and bones and I hope you make eye contact with a bird today. Look for one, I bet it’ll happen.
Love, Roshni
Love the tiny journal! You are a ray of light!
How did I not know that Roshni meant “ray of light”??? Yay prints! Yay more room on the emotional schedule 😜