100% team overthink over here. I’ve had to scale back on the scope of ambitious projects like that and boy does it feel good to just get them done and appreciate the fraction of reuse/foraging/conceptualizing that I did do! (FWIW this California transplant in the northeast considers summer over once tree leaves start changing)
i think Sandra Lee is the food network star you’re thinking of! aside from that, this edish of the newsletter really resonated with me so much. i’ve been doing exactly what you described lately - trying to make things easier for myself. we don’t need to make it harder. thanks for a lovely Sunday read :)
Great reflections as usual :) there has to be a term like orthorexia for the hand-maker. The two feel very tied together for me, and something I’ve also needed to absolve myself of. Just because I CAN make it by hand, doesn’t mean that is the best/only/automatically chosen way. It’s funny the external pressure I’ve felt too, of people like “oh! You can make that!” Or just assuming I do in fact make every single thing and it setting this standard I feel like I need to live up to…😵💫
I have come to adopt the liminal seasons of “late summer” and “late winter” - seasons feel more of felt sense times to me rather than marked by specific days . August and early September are definitely late summer (in both my regions of western washington and vermont). It shifts into fall for me sometime late September/early October…more early October though!
Your description of the yarn colors made me howl with laughter. No one can quite talk successfully about that perfect warm neutral background color, not yellow, not green, not tan, because they can’t find the right word for it until now-goose/babypoop! It truly is a color that goes with everything. Thanks for the laugh and expanding my color name vocabulary!
Your throughts here reflect my own on the subject. They also remind me of this great essay on diet culture and native gardening (https://virginiasolesmith.substack.com/p/where-does-your-diet-culture-show-up). You wouln't think there is a diet culture connection to gardening or crafting, but clearly there is!
100% team overthink over here. I’ve had to scale back on the scope of ambitious projects like that and boy does it feel good to just get them done and appreciate the fraction of reuse/foraging/conceptualizing that I did do! (FWIW this California transplant in the northeast considers summer over once tree leaves start changing)
i think Sandra Lee is the food network star you’re thinking of! aside from that, this edish of the newsletter really resonated with me so much. i’ve been doing exactly what you described lately - trying to make things easier for myself. we don’t need to make it harder. thanks for a lovely Sunday read :)
Great reflections as usual :) there has to be a term like orthorexia for the hand-maker. The two feel very tied together for me, and something I’ve also needed to absolve myself of. Just because I CAN make it by hand, doesn’t mean that is the best/only/automatically chosen way. It’s funny the external pressure I’ve felt too, of people like “oh! You can make that!” Or just assuming I do in fact make every single thing and it setting this standard I feel like I need to live up to…😵💫
I have come to adopt the liminal seasons of “late summer” and “late winter” - seasons feel more of felt sense times to me rather than marked by specific days . August and early September are definitely late summer (in both my regions of western washington and vermont). It shifts into fall for me sometime late September/early October…more early October though!
Your description of the yarn colors made me howl with laughter. No one can quite talk successfully about that perfect warm neutral background color, not yellow, not green, not tan, because they can’t find the right word for it until now-goose/babypoop! It truly is a color that goes with everything. Thanks for the laugh and expanding my color name vocabulary!
Your throughts here reflect my own on the subject. They also remind me of this great essay on diet culture and native gardening (https://virginiasolesmith.substack.com/p/where-does-your-diet-culture-show-up). You wouln't think there is a diet culture connection to gardening or crafting, but clearly there is!