Right now there are countless machines spewing out countless perfect texts. All the language has correct spelling and is perfectly comprehensible. It’s so boring. I prefer things people make, write, doodle, craft. I rather look at your stream of consciousness, your blotchy doodle, your crappy handlettering, your...

My medication makes me feel constantly fatigued. It’s super annoying and something that I fight to counteract. The fatigue makes me want to lay in bed all day and do nothing, especially on days when my asthma is triggered. Yesterday I was DONE with that. We went thrifting, something I always love to do. It was a...

I’ve started knitting fingerless gloves again. I love knitting these things, they are quick little projects and I want a stack in a lot of colours as I wear them throughout the colder months. They keep my hands warm while I work. I just finished the first of a new set of gloves, in a pink/white/green pastel...

This is the sixth post in my 'hitting the digital brakes'-series. These are the previous posts in this series: the joys of imperfection Do we really need the latest tech My e-reader made me a worse reader Not everything needs to be in the cloud Anti AI? Be Pro Human! I have a highly curated feed on Instagram, and...

Dear Creative Soul, I have a shelf in my library that contains all the books that inspire me to be creative. I can consult it every time I need inspiration, every time I’m stuck, every time I feel like I have nothing to create. It never fails to inspire me. If you created such a shelf, what books would be in it?...

Last week I happened upon a video about Nålebinding, an ancient Norse way of creating fabric with wool yarn. I immediately felt the pull to create something with this technique. I grabbed some yarn that was 75 percent wool and it obviously wasn’t suitable. You have to felt yarn for it and felting only really works...

A week from today I have the big quarterly checkup at the hospital again, and that had me really nervous this morning. I don’t like to dwell on those feelings. Thankfully, I’ve learned to deal with them: follow my two step plan to free myself of those jitters. Step 1 - find calm I just got up, walked to the...

I wrote a poem this morning, a poem filled with longing to write poetry. It’s one of many. This is the poem: I seek quietbetween these linessolace within breathcalm withinthe hum of wordsfalling into placethe confident energyof a poem, written You see, after my diagnosis and healing journey after, poetry doesn’t...

The weather forecast was amazing, and I had a good night sleep. I really itched to go out and we did! We went to a museum about an hour’s drive from the house, and it’s famous for its amazing sculpture garden and one of the largest van Gogh collections in the world. It was so so so wonderful. Here are some pictures...

This post is entirely inspired by Rachel Maksy’s video she posted yesterday: my complete ineptitude to do a new to me yarn craft: nålebinding. This morning the headline of a triumphant article shouted at me that OpenAI now has created human intelligence or something stupid like that. I didn’t read it as I had...

I keep forgetting to post this list! Funny too, because I was struggling in the last week of (bl)august to find something to share! So I’ve already read two of the books on my list. Feel accomplished :D The orange coloured ones are in progress. Robert Jackson Bennett - A Drop of Corruption ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Ashlyn Kane &...

I just wrote a draft post that was filled with doom and gloom and so much negativity. I wrote all that out of my system, then hit the back button on the top left of my screen, and hit “discard changes”. Poof. All that doom thinking gone into the ether. Here’s why I don’t want to give into it. Why I don’t want to...