Hello First name / Creative Kindred,

 

I am writing to you as morning light awakens the sky and strong blustery winds whistle through the towering ponderosas outside my studio. I feel the pull between winter and spring— the temperatures and weather patterns swinging between cool and warm, wet and dry, stormy and calm. 

 

I feel that same stretch within myself as I oscillate between feeling the tender pain for the world and acknowledging the stability and safety in my own life. Between moments of loneliness and loving reminders that I am never alone. Between anxious uncertainty embedded in recent health challenges and surges of ease. 

 

For the past 6 months, I've been participating in a weekly Women Embodied course. One of the practices we are cultivating is Workability— bowing to what is and finding the most life-giving relationship with that. Recently, I realized the potency of that practice and how much spaciousness and ease it creates within challenging contexts. 

 

After an anxious month of doctor visits that led to nothing concrete and several weeks of abandoning creative projects due to the disruption, I settled into a more life-giving relationship with uncertainty. The anxiety softened during the liminal spaces between medical appointments and results. I surrendered to the process while tending my body's current needs— reducing stressors where possible, honoring my energetic capacity, holding generous space for presence and rooting into supportive connection. I didn't know it at the time, but I now realize workability was at play.

I return to the way Ponderosas withstand a windstorm. How their airy limber branches undulate and their towering trunks gently sway with the turbulent wind current, stabilized by sturdy roots and sustainable adaptability.

 

Workability feels something like that— a fluid strength that isn't about fixing or stopping what is happening. Rather, an invitation to meet disruptions and challenges with less rigidity. Workability feels like gentle resilience mingled with loving kindness. It feels like meeting the hard things with tender witnessing and offering compassionate permission to lean into softness, nourishment, and supportive nurturance. It feels like gently placing what is painful and hard within a downy nest, easing up some emotional and physical space for other parts of life and self to show up.

 

In the shift from disruption into workability, my creativity reclaimed itself. It feels surprising and somehow makes sense. Bowing to what is with gentle compassion released some of the tension. It created a softening in my body, displacing the perpetual clenching and bracing. And in that ease, creativity had room to stretch and flow. Creativity is how I alchemize life, so it feels truly life-giving to offer it space instead of exiling that part of me while waiting around for test results and the unknown future. 

 

From that spacious adaptation, a richly rewarding and generative season of creativity bloomed into being. I am excited to share some of that work with you. A small release of handmade offerings harvested from my hands and heart. Tangible expressions of resilience and love made during this uncertain season of life.

SPring Release

This limited collection of creative offerings are original guided rituals, gently held within interactive handmade structures. Each ritual grew from explorations and practices in my own life— ways of working through a process or deepening connection with inner and outer life. Alchemized into tangible forms, they serve as living resources that you can engage, alter, and return to as needed. Each offering is invitational, allowing space for you to experiment, explore and refine your own way of integrating ritual into your life.

 

You can find this seasonal release within my newly opened Garden Stand. 

Thank you for receiving these notes into your heart and inbox. I am sending tendrils of loving kindness and wishes for a season of bountiful beauty, moments of spacious ease, and room for creative nourishment. I'm so grateful to be in connection with you. 

With Care,

more to explore in the garden