sophie tottie

sophie tottie

Take a walk. Make something.

rules for self-care

1. MOVE. Take a walk. Be in nature. Commune with Mother Earth. She has seen it all, and she's still here supporting us. 

2. MAKE SOMETHING. A sandwich, a scarf, a sculpture, a song. Something small. Just remind yourself of your capable hands and self. It can help you keep the forward momentum. 


people, we need to take care of ourselves and our loved ones, bake cakes and look at the moon, all while remaining outraged, active and committed to moving society in the direction of freedom for all.

ink

Wild harvested Inks from the Toronto Ink Company

'i teach self-care'

"I teach self-care. I create environments for people to investigate themselves. I give them permission to touch their wounds, their blindness and numbness. I believe that deep self-knowledge is the path to healing and repairing the places where we've turned our backs on ourselves, where we were ignorant of our own body biases within our tissues and therefore our heart and soul. I help people find where they have unknowingly been at battle in their bodies. I teach this across fractured party lines. I teach people to empower themselves through body sensing and body-relating practices. And I believe that embodied self knowledge fosters compassion, understanding and better inter-relating to other humans. I want to know my neighbor, even if we disagree. I am prepared to do my part in repairing this country. I chose to not be at war with my own body a long time ago.

To my movement educator friends, let's continue to hold space for people of all ages and stages, let's honor them by hosting environments where they can find ease and peace. May we unify inside ourselves in order transform the anxiety and fear within society."

-- Jill Miller of Yoga Tune-Up

Ina Chadwick Wilde, from “The World Traveler.”

joan mitchell

Joan Mitchell, Pastels

on repeat

carfully tended

My desire
is always the same; 
wherever life deposits me:
I want to stick my toe
& soon my whole body
into the water.
I want to shake out a fat broom
& sweep dried leaves
bruised blossoms
dead insects
& dust.
I want to grow
something.
It seems impossible that desire
can sometimes transform into devotion;
but this has happened.
And that is how I've survived:
how the hole
I carefully tended
in the garden of my heart
grew a heart
to fill it

-Alice Walker

i art rachel

♡ my new shop selling hand made objects to spread love and cause mischief with ♡

iArtRachelShop

 

what makes us human

I could post these all day! You can check out the film in full on youtube (all 3 hours!) but I recommend going to see a version on the big screen. It's incredible and you can see it for free. The sheer indivisible weight of experience in the stories told by people from across the world have left me feeling connected and inspired to do more in my little corner of this planet. It's also interspersed with some breathtaking landscapes to remind us, If we've forgotten, about the importance of the land. And, in my interpretation, how much peoples freedom is tied to it.
Oohhh and the movement! Movement most definitely matters.

it all matters

It all matters. That someone turns out the lamp, picks up the windblown wrapper, says hello to the invalid, pays at the unattended lot, listens to the repeated tale, folds the abandoned laundry, plays the game fairly, tells the story honestly, acknowledges help, gives credit, says good night, resists temptation, wipes the counter, waits at the yellow, makes the bed, tips the maid, remembers the illness, congratulates the victor, accepts the consequences, takes a stand, steps up, offers a hand, goes first, goes last, chooses the small portion, teaches the child, tends to the dying, comforts the grieving, removes the splinter, wipes the tear, directs the lost, touches the lonely, is the whole thing. What is most beautiful is least acknowledged. What is worth dying for is barely noticed.

-- Laura McBride, We Are Called to Rise

after winter must come spring

Giovanni Salani - Battito d'ali

anna bu kliewer

constance stuart larrabee

jj

several planes

"To talk to Le Guin is to encounter alternatives. At her house, the writer is present, but so is Le Guin the mother of three, the faculty wife: the woman writing fantasy in tandem with her daily life. I asked her recently about a particularly violent story that she wrote in her early thirties, in two days, while organizing a fifth-birthday party for her elder daughter. “It’s funny how you can live on several planes, isn’t it?” she said."

- Julie Phillips' profile of Ursula K. Le Guin:

sarah scampton

images found here

pay attention

'It's a constant, continuous, spectacular world we live in, and every day you see things that just knock you out, if you pay attention.' 

-- Robert Irwin

Cineflex - Norwegian sunrise from Fuglefjellet on Vimeo.

sunrise

Hernán Ardila, Untitled (2015)

Georgia O'Keeffe

gif

Louise Bourgeois

Still from F.W. Murnau's Sunrise.

Cy Twombly

found here

Mark Borthwick

“There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.”

― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

circles of life

Everything
Turns,
Rotates,
Spins,
Circles,
Loops,
Pulsates,
Resonates,
And
Repeats.

Circles
Of life,
Born from
Pulses
Of light,
Vibrate
To
Breathe,
While
Spiraling
Outwards
For
Infinity
Through
The lens
Of time,
And into
A sea
Of stars
And
Lucid
Dreams.

― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Untitled, David Horvitz, 2016

grays anatomy

Georgia O'Keeffe

Feldenkrais Method in action

Cy Twombly

Pierre Verger - Capoeira, Salvador, Brasil, 1946-1948

Nancy Spero

spiral motion

“When a person loses his way in the forest or in snowstorms or fogs he goes around in circles as long as he keeps on moving, until in some way or other he finds his way again. The same is true of foxes, rabbits, antelopes,’ and doubtless other animals, when hard pressed in the chase. Going down lower in the scale of organisms, where there are only poorly developed guiding senses, as in some of the crustacea, or none at all as in the protozoa arid the flatworms, one finds these creatures going in circles all the time that they are in movement, hut with a ‘drift,’ making the path a loose helical spiral. In all these animals and, in fact, in all motile organisms whatsoever, there is a deep-seated spiralling mechanism which leads an animal to go in a series of circles of spiral form when there are no guiding senses, as in the lower organisms. or when the guiding senses do not function through fear or for other reasons, in the higher. A tendency to spiral locomotion is inherent in all moving organisms. An examination of biological literature shows, as is well known, that the lower animals : flagellates, ciliates, rotifers, and the marine larvae of echinoderms, molluscs, worms, and crustacea swim in spiral paths, as well as some of the zoospores of algae and a few spermatozoa. So many organisms, in fact, swim in spiral paths that the negative aspect of the question is the more practical form for purposes of investigation : Are there any motile organisms which do not move in spiral paths when guiding senses are absent or not functioning?”

from here: “Spiral motion in man”

a seat at the table

THIS ALBUM on repeat....

pay attention

It's a constant, continuous, spectacular world we live in, and every day you see things that just knock you out, if you pay attention. 

Robert Irwin (quote found thanks to evencleveland).