Contemporary Crone

29/07/2020

Lovely! ❤️

Poem by Alison Luterman to start your week.

05/05/2020

28/04/2020

Jane and Oprah are two role models of mine. They are two examples of women who age gracefully and with candor.

Hit me up on my instagram page: instagram.com/ericajaneb Also you can follow me on tumblr! http://memphiswright.tumblr.com

31/03/2020

These all ring true

23/03/2020

Save space for your Llama

It was a stressful day for many, so let’s smile a bit too.

22/03/2020

Stay safe, practice social distancing, and

08/03/2020

Art by Valerie Lorimer

04/03/2020

I believe this to be true, but I also know we can change that inner voice, we can replace it....over time.

You ask them to put their milk cup further back on the table, but they didn't listen. A minute later you hear "Oh no!" and you look over to see that the milk had spilled all over the table and chair. Now YOU have a choice. You can either...

29/02/2020

These are beautiful!

New small damselflies have hatched, probably the last batch

These are very similar to the standard large, 28” ones. I make them exclusively for the summer Cracked Pots at Edgefield garden art show and don't otherwise advertise them. But mostly due my ever increasing interest in making and improving upon sea creature lamps, I don't see myself doing that show many more times.

I have about 18 of these available in various color combinations. They measure 14” wingspan and have all the features of the large ones except the standing display option. Wing pattern is slightly different and the eyes are made from antique class ring jewels.

$125 each, get one (or more) while they last.

20/02/2020

This is spot on.

"The traumatized brain is anything but lazy. In fact, it is overworked, overstimulated, overactive and overstressed. Many trauma survivors have an enlarged amygdala, which triggers the fight-or-flight response. In a survivor, this response goes haywire. It cannot perceive between something that happened in the past with what’s in the present.

The brain remembers trauma in the form of flashbacks that constantly recreate the experience. A traumatized brain is always on alert.

Hypervigilance is constantly running in the background, assessing the situation and trying to report back to the rational brain what it finds. In order to keep up with everyday situations, it often must work harder than a neurotypical brain without trauma."

"Let's expose that lie, shall we?"

17/02/2020

Pinksocks is such a simple concept, kindness is easy, giving brings contentment.

The movement is really an act of giving - which is much needed at a time when authentic acts of generosity are in short supply. ~Dan Munro 🌍💖😊✨

03/02/2020

Don't celebrate Lent, but I LOVE this idea. Doing it!

Want to join in a little pre-spring de-cluttering?

I love this idea!

01/02/2020

Sweet stuff

28/01/2020

Portrait of a successful marriage, did you know ravens mate for life?

28/01/2020

Maybe..I mean, it could happen.

09/01/2020

A new book by Mallory O'Meara explores the life of artist Milicent Patrick, who worked on Fantasia and costumed a legendary Hollywood monster — and then ran afoul of misogyny in the workplace.

05/01/2020

I don't know what to think, except, wow!

The apocalyptic skies bears a brilliant resemblance to the flag representing the indigenous population of Australia.

04/01/2020

Look at that face!

AsianScientist (Feb. 10, 2012) – Irrawaddy dolphins (Orcaella brevirostris) have been discovered for the first time in West Kalimantan, a part of Indonesian Borneo best known for its dense tropical forests and rich wildlife.

31/12/2019

Who has time to waste on shallow friendships.

from American Hippie

30/12/2019

I do love the feel and texture of yarn.

29/12/2019

Am I the last person on earth to learn how to wind a ball of yarn so it doesn't tangle.

Support me by buying me a coffee on Ko-Fi! https://www.ko-fi.com/roxannerichardson Mechanical ball winders are all well and good, but what if you don't have ...

21/12/2019

Yes! Be that girl who cheers on the other girl. We are each other's advocates.

​6 Signs You Have A Strong Personality

17/12/2019

It's a good time of year to grab that clean pair of socks you NEVER wear, those shampoo and conditioner samples, and maybe a granola bar and a new lip gloss.

Put those items in a $1.00 store xmas stocking or bag and hand out to that cold women asking for money at the off-ramp or stoplight.

Add or change whatever you want.

Gloves
Hat
Comb and brush
Nail file

So many things we may take for granted become precious when you have no money or place to keep things.

17/12/2019

We are all perfectly imperfect

17/12/2019

A pioneer hiker, Emma Gatewood, was the first woman to walk the Appalachian Trail solo in one season. At the age of 67, after raising 11 children, Gatewood started hiking, inspired by an article in National Geographic, and set her mind to tackle the 2,168-mile trail. She completed the hike three times, the last at age 75, making her the first person to do so. She also walked 2,000 miles of the Oregon Trail, averaging 22 miles a day. In total she walked alone through 14 states. The impetus behind her marathon hikes is rooted in her experience as a survivor of domestic violence. The last straw was an incident when her husband Percy beat her so badly he broke her teeth, jaw and cracked her ribs, nearly killing her. A sheriff’s deputy arrived at the house, and arrested Emma, not Percy. She spent a night in jail until the mayor of the small West Virginia town where they lived intervened when he saw her blackened eyes and bloodied face. He granted Emma a divorce — unheard of in those days — and she raised her last three children alone. Her youngest daughter Lucy who witnessed the brutal violence showed her mom the National Geographic article and urged her mom to set out on an adventure. Hiking for Emma, was an act of self-care, healing, resistance, independence and a way to regain her inner and outer strength and find her way back to herself. When asked why she hiked, she said simply “because I wanted to.” How cool is that ❤️

16/12/2019

This is adorable and what???

16/12/2019

It's pretty simple logic IMHO

Yep!

15/12/2019

Keep your cool

08/12/2019

Dreams!

🦋💙🦋

06/12/2019

04/12/2019

We have to think bigger, act quicker, and include everyone, writes the former President

01/12/2019

This resonates

“Self-care is often a very unbeautiful thing.

It is making a spreadsheet of your debt and enforcing a morning routine and cooking yourself healthy meals and no longer just running from your problems and calling the distraction a solution.

It is often doing the ugliest thing that you have to do, like sweat through another workout or tell a toxic friend you don’t want to see them anymore or get a second job so you can have a savings account or figure out a way to accept yourself so that you’re not constantly exhausted from trying to be everything, all the time and then needing to take deliberate, mandated breaks from living to do basic things like drop some oil into a bath and read Marie Claire and turn your phone off for the day.

A world in which self-care has to be such a trendy topic is a world that is sick. Self-care should not be something we resort to because we are so absolutely exhausted that we need some reprieve from our own relentless internal pressure.

True self-care is not salt baths and chocolate cake, it is making the choice to build a life you don’t need to regularly escape from.

And that often takes doing the thing you least want to do.

It often means looking your failures and disappointments square in the eye and re-strategizing. It is not satiating your immediate desires. It is letting go. It is choosing new. It is disappointing some people. It is making sacrifices for others. It is living a way that other people won’t, so maybe you can live in a way that other people can’t.

It is letting yourself be normal. Regular. Unexceptional. It is sometimes having a dirty kitchen and deciding your ultimate goal in life isn’t going to be having abs and keeping up with your fake friends. It is deciding how much of your anxiety comes from not actualizing your latent potential, and how much comes from the way you were being trained to think before you even knew what was happening.

If you find yourself having to regularly indulge in consumer self-care, it’s because you are disconnected from actual self-care, which has very little to do with “treating yourself” and a whole lot do with parenting yourself and making choices for your long-term wellness.

It is no longer using your hectic and unreasonable life as justification for self-sabotage in the form of liquor and procrastination. It is learning how to stop trying to “fix yourself” and start trying to take care of yourself… and maybe finding that taking care lovingly attends to a lot of the problems you were trying to fix in the first place.

It means being the hero of your life, not the victim. It means rewiring what you have until your everyday life isn’t something you need therapy to recover from. It is no longer choosing a life that looks good over a life that feels good. It is giving the hell up on some goals so you can care about others. It is being honest even if that means you aren’t universally liked. It is meeting your own needs so you aren’t anxious and dependent on other people.

It is becoming the person you know you want and are meant to be. Someone who knows that salt baths and chocolate cake are ways to enjoy life – not escape from it.”
-Brianna Wiest
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[Illustration: Yaoyao Ma Van As Art ]

28/11/2019

Truth

Reminder:

26/11/2019

Yes, let’s make our worlds a little more beautiful