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In A Warm Winter

We haven’t had much winter yet. There are random days when I am outside in a tank top raking old piles of previously ungardened debris as if Autumn is here to stay. Except, beneath the piles I’ve found thousands of eager green bits who tell me otherwise. The most enthusiastic of them are clumps of Snowdrops and Daffodils so abundant that I long for warmer rainy days so I can move them out of paths and thin them out so they can breathe – so they can take up even more space*.

Now that the mornings are a smidge brighter, I can see the fog that hangs in our little valley in the wee hours, and it lifts my fog-loving spirits. Being awake when the world seems mostly asleep is a gift I receive nearly daily.

Small Batch: The Hunter Satchel in Fog	Small Batch: The Waxed Canvas Tote in Fog

On My Desk

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I am often overwhelmed by the stuff around me. I cannot keep it down. I cannot tame it. I want it all to leave but then I go to a flea market and things call out, and there I go, arms outstretched like a somnambulist. But then I play, and things happen. And they aren’t all good but that doesn’t matter. It is the moving, the shuffling, the brightening and widening of spirits and thoughts and ideas that matters.

I shall not be tamed, and neither, I suspect, shall my stuff.

Mornings are for writing and drawing. And getting inky, inevitably. I love these journals! You can make them with our tutorials as your guide (here) or with our Anselm Bookbinding Kits (here).

Brush Rest Trio made from Antique American Chestnut.	Small Carson Tome for morning pages and all manner of thinking on paper.

“What keeps me up at night is wondering where I planted the Iris Cristatas. Where?” More drawings @beingmargauxkent	“In the sun, 40 degrees feels summery. I removed my winter layers and embarked on the unplanting project at the 5 acre wood. Under piles of dead things, living things thrive! Thousands of daffodils anxious for springs’ arrival!”

Sendak Mini Artist Roll in Almond	Foundlings Small Desk Caddy: Holly

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Solvitur Ambulando Jewelry	We will be joining the County Studio Tour in May!

Some Good Things

• *I recently learned about moving plants in the rain in Elizabeth Tova Bailey’s The Sound of the Wild Snail Eating.

• How I Built This with Hank and John Green.
• One of the resources we use for Homeschool is Hank and John Green’s Crash Course. Søren and Silas’s favourite is Philosophy — so much so, they listen twice: once with Walter on the way to Open Connections (their co-op), and once with me on the way back!
• We also loved The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green.