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  • Still Here, Still Learning

    March 12, 2025

    Building a creative life online rarely comes with a clear blueprint, but three months in, the work is still here: the questions, the doubt, the learning curve, and the choice to keep showing up.

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  • What Ownership Asks Us to Forget

    March 4, 2025

    Learning to see land differently means sitting with the tangle of inheritance, care, ownership, and harm, while trying to pass down something closer to listening than control.

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  • Growing Up with Gardens

    February 15, 2025

    The gardens I grew up with were never just pretty places, but living lessons in food, thrift, care, and the old family wisdom of wasting less and tending more.

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  • The Emotional Weight of Digital Spaces

    February 9, 2025

    After leaving platforms that felt more like performance than belonging, online spaces became something more complicated: places to feel seen and understood, but also fragile enough to disappear.

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  • Finding Freedom in the Flow

    February 4, 2025

    Watercolor has a way of refusing control, but in the blooming, bleeding, and unexpected mistakes, it can teach a more forgiving kind of creativity rooted in patience and trust.

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  • Beyond the Fabric

    January 25, 2025

    A simple piece of fabric became more than adornment when veiling offered a way to listen inward, honor my boundaries, and move through overwhelming days with more care.

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  • Losing TikTok and the Right to Gather

    January 18, 2025

    What started as a silly little app became a place for grief, creativity, community, and free expression, making the fight over TikTok feel deeply personal and much larger than one platform.

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  • Between Oceans and Forests

    January 9, 2025

    I came from salt air and ocean tides, but Minnesota’s lakes, forests, and fierce seasons taught me that home can be made from more than one kind of wildness.

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