tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31169519539036092232024-03-28T03:34:30.514-06:00Amy NelsonFlowers and Feelings / Songwriter and crybabyamyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02589736019280915120noreply@blogger.comBlogger471125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3116951953903609223.post-12078533838260033752023-03-05T21:15:00.002-07:002023-03-05T21:22:58.618-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH4bQseGzvmFNW-h43xKX8Cfb_0fkPIcPwW2myBIAoaDY7R9jCWjd767Pq5_S1bFTw2-QycdQk-1oe9y1EKh36iqzoy1UdyGOJDX3DV3qx8wc4b5lakCg8sEAvAejpCNTriwzouzzVSBLRDXNPlBnVfc3FlpVWNZ27_P1TzJrFLOYxQpELT29gSS25/s1640/BEC11A7A-441D-47A2-82EE-FC0C54CB9F8A.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="924" data-original-width="1640" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH4bQseGzvmFNW-h43xKX8Cfb_0fkPIcPwW2myBIAoaDY7R9jCWjd767Pq5_S1bFTw2-QycdQk-1oe9y1EKh36iqzoy1UdyGOJDX3DV3qx8wc4b5lakCg8sEAvAejpCNTriwzouzzVSBLRDXNPlBnVfc3FlpVWNZ27_P1TzJrFLOYxQpELT29gSS25/w640-h360/BEC11A7A-441D-47A2-82EE-FC0C54CB9F8A.png" width="640" /></a></div>
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Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05829675701870939352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3116951953903609223.post-14196734603788351402019-03-04T13:56:00.000-07:002019-03-04T13:56:02.303-07:00Educated Woman Album - coming to you April 12th!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Come and celebrate the trials and tribulations of making a record with me.<br />
Full band on duty. Special guests.<br />
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the album<i><b> Educated Woman</b></i> will finally be given wings!<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: blue;"> </span></span><br />
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If you have begun to wonder where I have been <span class="st">β
I return to you today. My winter has been scattered with work and
play, both of these have required a certain type of brain energy that
leaves me very tired by midday. My November was twenty days away from
home as I embarked on a songwriter tour from Alberta to British Columbia
and back through. I saw the mountainside before and after an avalanche,
I listened to the prairie wind howl, the sky-like space that rolls
between each ocean wave, I sang for my supper, I sang for strangers,
some of whom became friends. I visited nightly the notes between my
lungs and guitar as if every broken moment was meant to lead me here.
If you asked me of the hardest hill to climb in doing such a thing, I
would speak of how I missed the early morning coffees at home and the
way thoughts have time to gather and conclude when you're not on the
road. As you ride the highway, you think often, but you don't have the
hours free to make much sense. You know as the wheels roll, you are on
your way to a new town with new faces but you don't yet know what they
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go on singing into the shining lights in a room you've never stood in
before and it gives rise to both an uneasy and beautiful feeling like
nothing else I have ever known. When I was young, I only dreamed but it
seems lately these dreams have come true and I am required to pinch
myself in order to believe this reality of mine. Sometimes, I feel like I
am just singing into a jewelry box and one day when the lights go dim,
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β a very small tragedy occurred. I suddenly fainted and busted my right
ankle until it looked like the size of a watermelon. I was certain at
this point that my belief in the world not being <i>entirely cruel</i>
was thoughtless and wrong. It hurt like being stung by a hive of angry
bees. I was suddenly without my ability to walk, to move, to survive the
way I have been taught to. When something happens to the body, it
happens to the mind too, and I was feeling lower than a broken berry
from a branch. There was no time for rest, the shows followed the moon
and I knew it would be far more miserable for me to quit only to stay in
bed as my foot healed, so I took up hopping like a bunny on one foot.
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is mostly due to our move into a new house. After ten years in the same
one, with the same walls and the same distance to get to where the
coyotes spook the air, we have found a new home and it has been
emotionally rewarding but also exhaustive <span class="st">β </span>moving
cardboard box after box, learning to let go and beginning again. It is a
strange thing - when your living in the middle of a day or a life,
waiting for things to happen as things are happening. I am not quite
sure where to put my thoughts or what to do in a day. December has yet
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an album to finish, a new house to behold and sentences to write here
all while continuing to live as one does in the midst of the beauty and
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I stood in Griffith Woods as a storm was blowing in from the mountains. The living trees shook and the dead ones crackled as squirrels hurried across the broken down log, their own highway of sorts. I thought about the imagery of a tree being knocked from its roots and falling down in front of me. I shuttered at the way a tree stands so tall, then quite suddenly, something like the weather roars and rattles, swallowing whole what once stood so tall and it made me begin to wonder about the very strangeness that is my <i>own</i> life.</div>
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These woods. This wind. The cutting down of our snapdragon crop. Never knowing if it is too early or too late to pull the flowers from the ground and making dried bouquets. I take what is left of the tomatoes and watch them ripen on the kitchen windowsill. Dreaming, always dreaming of berries cooked in pies and the way sunlight bends through these spaces we have come to know as ours.</div>
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These days, all I think about, truthfully, is food. It seems that once the leaves no longer sit beneath a summer, I start thinking of ways to make that feeling last <span class="st">β</span> the one that welcomes bare legged you into the garden and keeps one leg out from the covers where you sleep. A warm meal as the weather turns is something treasured. I am reminded of my younger days, when I played basketball and it was all I did, practice in the morning, practice at night, when the team wasn't practicing, I was bouncing around on the pavement outside of my house with a ball in hand and a net. The air would be chilled to the touch, leaves scattered, cheeks rosy, hands bruised, and I would come inside as the dusk settled to a warm meal made by my mum.</div>
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It was this that made even the roughest sewn dreams feel like an illusion and the cold hands from working outside were made to be held by a spoon and a fork. I would gently savor each bite <span class="st">β something my mum always taught me to do. As my brother, my dad or whoever was visiting at the time ate hurriedly, licking their plates clean like cats do, I was only on my second spoonful. </span></div>
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<span class="st">We all have our own reasons to believe in one as <i>our</i> season, the season that rises good thoughts above all the rest. Some don't even care about the seasons in this way, except for maybe which tires to put on the car or what coat to wear, but I am attached in my own strangeness to each one. Summer, it is freedom. Freedom of thought, freedom of cloth, freedom to walk without shoes and grow flowers out of the dirt. Autumn, it is an eventual sadness for me, as I am stuck in the routine of thinking about what I didn't do during July or August, as if there was more for me and how I never swam enough. I will never swim enough. What am I to do without the sun to kiss me in the morning? </span></div>
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<span class="st">It has been thirteen days since I last posted here β which quietly breaks my heart. I found an interview I did years ago and it reminded me of why I began blogging in the first place. It was not for the applause or the very small promise that is sharing your inner world and hoping others like it too. No, it was an escape shoot from the mundane, a way of finding myself as a girl, as an artist, and beyond all, my own way of figuring out what it meant to be a human being. I could convince you with certainty that I am a better woman for having had this blog. It has been the greatest task I have ever followed through - because of what I have learned, because of who I have met, because of how vulnerable these blog entries turn me and I am so glad to have shared these years with you.</span><br />
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<span class="st">The landscape of blogging has changed. I've went on to include other things in my life, mostly music occupies all of the hours in a day and my loved ones deserve time too, but that does not mean I don't want to write here and although it may seem easier to say goodbye because goodbye would mean music would get all of my attention and that seems to be a good thing, goodbye would also mean I'd be losing the grin and heartbeat that makes this blog a<i> home</i> for me.</span><br />
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<span class="st">So into the future as we go, here is to what comes next. Whether a person reads it not, writing is medicine, each sentence a healthy spoonful of<i> it's going to be okay</i> and maybe, just maybe, you're doing more than putting sentences together, you're keeping yourself alive.</span><br />
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<span class="st">And that is what I intend to do. </span><br />
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The moon is as round as a banjo. <br />
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<span title="Edited"><span>You can try to paint the day without banjo,
books, warm coffee on the tongue or flowers within arm reach but it
wouldn't be a day for me. </span></span><br />
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"<span><span>By teaching us how to read, they taught us how to get away."</span></span><br />
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<span><span>To do: play banjo no matter what the neighbors think</span></span> <br />
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H<span title="Edited"><span>appiness is a garden that grows through September and sunlight dropping on the rooftops of the houses where people I love live.</span></span><br />
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Turn those hurt feelings into poems.<br />
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<span><span>I couldn't sleep last night. I rolled around like I was a boat on a wavering sea.</span></span><br />
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<span><span><span><span>To do today: let go of thoughts that say you cannot sing. If
you have guts, you can sing. If you have the ability to make tears out
of being crossed, you can sing. If you see a dog wandering by the road
and wonder where it is going, you can sing. If you want to sing, you can
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<a name='more'></a>On days such as these, it can be amiss to believe that there ever was a bad day on earth or a voice being ignored when calling out a name. It is days such as these when the paint on the canvas is filled with such light that you cannot even recall what it meant to be moody or unfair. I know there are reasons that rise at times like a kettle being hot and on for us to belong to some sort of dimness β as if walking is too long and the days grow too weary with news, plans and chest aches. The last few months have been equal parts playroom, equal parts arithmetic, which is not to say life has ever been anything else, just lately I have noticed these sort of things more than I usually do.<br />
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One thing I have found in the last few months β because I have been busy doing new things, trading my usual places for somewhere less familiar, less understood, and because these undertakings have been driven by both fear and desire, I find in myself something I didn't know so well before and that is the ability to know what it is my heart calls for and how I am supposed to give it food, much like hay to the horse. The heart can be stubborn and the heart can change in a moment, but one thing is always true, when you pay mind to what hurts it, what soothes it, what confuses it, you might find yourself closer to a way of mending, of sewing yourself a life that bodes well for you, too.<br />
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It is <i>tasking</i> to remember that we are worthy, more<i> everyday</i> to think that we are not. In a lifetime, we live too many days with dagger pressed against us instead of a hand and to my younger self, I wish I knew what I know now <i>sooner</i>. It is fine just as birds fly, ducks skim the creek bed and the deer stands still upon noticing you, <i>to know what you want and to ask for it.</i> On days such as these, when sunlight warms the staircase as if it were a cradle and that kettle ready dimness you sometimes run to is away from you, it is easy to forget that there ever was a moment when I said<br />
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Where has the time gone? It seems to me that it was only yesterday when the wild call of summer came knocking on the door, now it is passing us like a sprinting pony and all I can do is try to hold on without quivering or crying at the thought of this warm hug of a season leaving me. I had plans, I had dreams, I had a lot to say in the months of June, July and August but mostly, I simply moved through the days and now I am here, sitting beside the climbing sweet peas, knowing one day they will be no more, but doing what I can to remember how good it is when they are here. I guess this is what happens when you make an album or take a dream from your head and try to make it into something you can hold. You spend so much time sitting on the stoop thinking about it, wondering if it is good, if it is worthy, if it is the best you can do. Art is a strange thing and nothing swallows time quite like over-thinking.</div>
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I traveled in July. I recorded in August. I wish I could say I swam more and how I tasted every type of edible berry that grows in our backyard, but I cannot seem to recall where the time has gone. Perhaps it is there, hidden in these songs and in the growing snapdragons that line the backyard fence. There will be other summers, other creeks to dip into, but there will never be another time for me to say "I recorded my very first album."</div>
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This is it. This the mark of my summer. What a surreal joy. What a strange emotion it is to think of your twelve year old little self so many moons ago, how she thirsted for such an occasion, how sometimes along the way you forgot it was even possible to dream, but dream you did, even when it seemed like you had already lost the bet. It is the dreaming that brought you here.</div>
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There is something about the tall grass that says <i>hold on</i>.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">A few years ago, I wrote this post and it still remains as one of the most asked questions around here: how does one press flowers. I decided to post it again as August is nearing its departure and petals are blooming all around - the perfect time for flower pressing!</span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Step 1. </span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Ready your supplies & gather your flowers</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Whether you want to press wild flowers, garden varieties, or a leftover bouquet, have your supplies ready. You'll need <b>parchment paper</b> (the kind you'd use for baking), <b>scissors</b>, and a<b> hard covered book or flower press</b>. You don't want to pick flowers after rainfall, my rule of thumb is at least one day of sunshine before I pick my flowers. Always forage midday (<b>1-3pm</b>), morning dew counts as a wet flower and evening flowers may be tired from the sun. You want happy & healthy flowers to press, <b>pick your best blooms. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Use scissors to gently cut your desired flower just below the petal.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pulling from the top can add stress to the flower. Feel free to include stems and leaves too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span>You can use a hard covered book (<i>example: dictionary</i>) or an actual flower press for this step. I have used both with equal results. Open your book, place one piece of parchment paper on selected page, put your desired flower on top of it, press your flower down with your fingers and shape it to your liking, place second piece of parchment paper on top of flower and then close your book. You can add multiple pressings, as long as they are separated by parchment paper.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Close your book and find a cool & dark hiding place to store it</span></b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Once you have act<span style="font-family: inherit;">ually pres<span style="font-family: inherit;">sed your flower<span style="font-family: inherit;">, you'll need t<span style="font-family: inherit;">o <span style="font-family: inherit;">wait four weeks<span style="font-family: inherit;"> before reintro<span style="font-family: inherit;">ducing it to s<span style="font-family: inherit;">unl<span style="font-family: inherit;">ight. <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Find a</span> dark hid<span style="font-family: inherit;">ing spot fo<span style="font-family: inherit;">r your book such </span>as underneath your bed or in your basement. Sta<span style="font-family: inherit;">ck other hard covered books <span style="font-family: inherit;">in between<span style="font-family: inherit;">. This will ensure your <span style="font-family: inherit;">pressing has time to dry and shape itself into a <span style="font-family: inherit;">pretty pressed flower! <span style="font-family: inherit;">T<span style="font-family: inherit;">he most difficult step of them al<span style="font-family: inherit;">l </span>is trying not to peek.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After four w<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">eeks of patiently waiting, it<span style="font-family: inherit;">'s finally time <span style="font-family: inherit;">to see your <span style="font-family: inherit;">pressed flower! <span style="font-family: inherit;">Carefully open your book<span style="font-family: inherit;"> to the <span style="font-family: inherit;">desired page<span style="font-family: inherit;"> and<span style="font-family: inherit;"> le<span style="font-family: inherit;">t the simpl<span style="font-family: inherit;">e joy of <span style="font-family: inherit;">a preserved flower <span style="font-family: inherit;">consume you. You are now free to use your pressed flower in crafts<span style="font-family: inherit;">, paintings, or as little love letters to the summertime.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7dVxIfqKz9g/Vct7EHpMUDI/AAAAAAAAbxg/XWAC_bl8Y1k/s1600/flowers%2Bin%2Bthe%2Bgarden%2B%25281%2Bof%2B1%2529-46.jpg" /></span></span></span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When picking your f<span style="font-family: inherit;">lower, make sure to check<span style="font-family: inherit;"> and s</span>ee if any critters are living there. You don't wan<span style="font-family: inherit;">t to<span style="font-family: inherit;"> intr<span style="font-family: inherit;">ude on the home of a</span> ladybug or b<span style="font-family: inherit;">umblebee.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Flat faced flowers</b> <span style="font-family: inherit;">are the easiest to press. If it's your first time pressing, try <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">using </span>flat petal<span style="font-family: inherit;">s like <b>daisies</b> or <b>pansies</b>. As yo<span style="font-family: inherit;">u<span style="font-family: inherit;"> get <span style="font-family: inherit;">more <span style="font-family: inherit;">acquainted with the art<span style="font-family: inherit;"> of it all, you can<span style="font-family: inherit;"> try pressing mor<span style="font-family: inherit;">e <span style="font-family: inherit;">uniquel<span style="font-family: inherit;">y sha<span style="font-family: inherit;">ped</span></span></span> flowers. <i>Start small.</i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Flo<span style="font-family: inherit;">wer presses can be ordered online<span style="font-family: inherit;">, b</span>ought i<span style="font-family: inherit;">n st<span style="font-family: inherit;">ore, or <span style="font-family: inherit;">hand built</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">. I found <span style="font-family: inherit;">both of mine <span style="font-family: inherit;">at Value Village.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><i> </i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Do </span>not be <span style="font-family: inherit;">discouraged if the pressed flower is u<span style="font-family: inherit;">nsettling <span style="font-family: inherit;">or if it's not <span style="font-family: inherit;">the image you wanted.</span></span> These things take time <span style="font-family: inherit;">before you can <span style="font-family: inherit;">discover</span> what works and w<span style="font-family: inherit;">hat doesn't.<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <b>Don't give </b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>up</b>. Try a<span style="font-family: inherit;">nother hard co<span style="font-family: inherit;">vered </span></span>book, <span style="font-family: inherit;">store it in a different location, pick a <span style="font-family: inherit;">new kind of flower<span style="font-family: inherit;">, try a different technique or type of wax pap<span style="font-family: inherit;">er. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
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Things have been quiet around here lately, you can almost hear the crickets singing in the distance and the clock quietly stirring. Things have not been as quiet in daily life as I have been moving from one thing to the next, and it is good to be in this head space, of trying, of walking out of comfort zones, of travel, of little sleep, but for today, I just want to sit in the garden until the moon is showing. Nobody else around but the magpies and the bees and the dogs inside sleeping.</div>
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To be with and to be without, I am realizing both have their place for me. Some days, you sit in the garden. Some days, you run into town with so many errands and plans, you have little time to think or feel or remember what senses you do have. So, I thought I would make a post, documenting some of the lush flowers we have seen here this summer, trying to slow time, trying to remember that there were times I wished and wished for this <i>busy</i> life.</div>
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I am both over the moon and out of the comfort zone sharing this with you today. The music video for my song 'how long blues' has been released into the wild and it is my greatest hope that those of you who watched the <a href="https://www.storyhive.com/project/show/id/1877">storyhive</a> pitch video and voted for this to come true are pleased and proud with our final video. </div>
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I may have wrote this song out of a bad day, when I was bit by the blues, but to think that in my own strangeness or misery, I found a home in a song about sorrow and out of it came a music video. Let it be known:<i> you can doubt yourself sometimes, because not all flowers grow out of warm days, but never doubt what you can do. </i>I used to sing around the house with a round brush but I never once thought I would sing for more than the mirror or the yelping dogs. Those dogs never did like my singing voice anyway. For years and years, I had given into the worry that because my voice wasn't what I wanted it to be, that it meant I shouldn't sing.</div>
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There is also a second round of voting, which began yesterday, but the winner of this gets to go to SXSW and continue pursuing the dizzy dream that is being an artist. Voting only goes until Friday, July 28th at noon PST. You can <b><a href="https://www.storyhive.com/project/show/id/1877">vote here</a></b> and share daily. You would make for a very very happy human on this side of the computer. </div>
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In Griffith Woods, the birds hop from tree to tree and the bells of nostalgia ring. Here, I find reminders of my own childhood <span class="st">β the light, the warmth, the way Alberta flowers are growing from the ground, the distant sound of creekbed water rolling over fallen logs, the sense that nothing matters, yet everything does. I could spend many hours here and I would still want to spend an hour more. To be away from the world as we know it, to set this brief life as something good, to wake as if waking from a fever and to find myself in these woods, how could I want anything else?</span></div>
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<span class="st">Tomorrow, I will be leaving for Hawaii with my mum. Hawaii in July was never something I planned, only because the winters here can be harsh enough, if I were to ever dream of a holiday, it might be to escape the winter's bluest days. I am feeling a bit strange about missing out on the garden or the singing gigs that seem to come in double during this time, but I am also feeling a slight twinge of guilt for worrying about these things that come to mind <i>at all</i>. How often in my lifetime will I get to adventure with only my mum by my side and the taste of mangoes from the tree? Isn't it just like a human to find reasons to worry or complain when everything is actually quite good and lovely?</span></div>
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<span class="st">I will leave C behind. I will leave my banjo behind. And the snapdragons too, but it has been so long since I left the city and I know it will treat me well to do so.</span></div>
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Below the lilac tree, honeyed light colors my hair red, a color that used to sit on top of my grandmother's hair but we never had the chance to meet. I wonder what she would say to me now. Perhaps, she would say something along the lines of <i>worry less and live more. </i>It takes time, these things we do, these meanings we try to uncover, these dreams we try to pull out of the ground, but there is an art to befriending time in such a way as to not fear it, but to welcome it, an art to keeping time without wishing it away. </div>
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I know the nasturtium is growing wide-eyed and able, the snapdragons are climbing, the marigolds are already tall, and I remember how long I waited for <i>this</i>. To be able to rise in the morning and walk barefooted into the backyard. To look for hummingbirds and bees and all sorts of signs from the living. It is not yet over for us <span class="st">β even when it feels like it is as your eyes fill with salty water, you're just a human being and what you do with that both wicked and beautiful understanding is</span></div>
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I trace lilacs as they grow by the
hillside, a hundred or so poems for those who survive. I move from one
to the other like I have done so many summers before. I bite the air and
when the sun meets my arm, it feels like somebody loves me <span class="st">β</span>
despite any failings or misfortunes one may think I have. The sun does
not care to remind me that I have had bad days or how I have ignored the
doorbell when it rang or how I have wondered what the point of
something was even if it meant <i>everything</i> to somebody else. No, the sun
just lifts its head and in doing so, gives rise to a joy like no other.</div>
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Knowing how many days I have lived without the warm sun or the lilac tree blooming makes me clutch to the moment, these moments, where I know so well that it will all inevitably come to leave me behind. What was once a bookshelf will soon become dusty and the spines of the books will no longer open without the crackling sound of pages touching pages. Where there was nothing, there is now something. Where there was something, there is now nothing. Such is the way of our strange, strange lives.</div>
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When I come to the lilac tree, I come to know all there is to know about living. It happens until it doesn't. The lilac is blooming until it is not. Your love is here until it is gone and so I drift, I drift and I drift until there is nothing else to do but untie my shoes and watch the tiny purple buds once attached to the tree fall to the grass and go away with the wind. One day, that will be me, that will be you, but not yet, there is still living in our lungs and lilacs growing on that tree. Summer afternoons with a banjo bigger than my pocket, what will become of the hazy sun and the little green sprouts that line the backyard garden? What will be loved and what will be forgotten?</div>
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The golden light of June is upon us and I am not sure if this is the best time for me to be making a list of 5 goals as I have been given to the grumps all day. Or, maybe, it is the perfect time to make such a list as life continues on despite the mood you find yourself in and sometimes the best way to fight the blues is to find new things to live and hope for<i>. Here are my 5 goals for June. </i></div>
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<li><b><i>Finish the vegetable garden</i>.</b> I have been a little behind in the garden this year - despite the fact that I write of it and talk of it so often. I could have swore yesterday was the first of May and now quite suddenly, the calendar says it is June. Time, remove your sneakers please!</li>
<li><b>Shoot the How Long Blues music video.</b> Just typing that sentence gave me goosebumps of the happy variety. I will be posting behind the scenes stuff on my <a href="http://www.instagram.com/amyflyingakite" target="_blank">instagram</a> if you are interested in following along. Mostly, I'll be pinching myself to make sure it is all real.</li>
<li><b>Spend</b> as many daylight hours as possible underneath the sky. June can be a treasure trove when it comes to exploring, so I want to tuck myself into those warm sunbeams and live live live!</li>
<li><b>Bake a chocolate cake.</b> I have been craving one for the last few weeks and there is nothing that can compare to something homemade.</li>
<li><b>Press wild grasses.</b> I often find myself pressing flowers, but this year, I want to try to learn the art of pressing wild grasses, too.</li>
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In the belly of a may tree, there is a certain kind of fragrance that feels more like forgiveness and so it drifts from the bough and onto the hair of those who walk beneath it, as if to say "despite it all, you're still something worth holding, worth loving, and worth knowing." I see the garden, I see the cherry tree, I see the little buds where Saskatoon berries are soon to fall, and it is just like the world has put words to a melody you have always wanted to sing but the hum wasn't enough to make a song out of it. I can imagine the cotton dress somebody's mother wore when she walked by trees such as these, rich with the daylight and promise of what places she could one day find herself in.</div>
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I wonder how many women have looked at the may tree and said "now, this, <i>this</i> is beautiful" and then went on to pick petals to put into glass jars so they could rise in the morning with something that was theirs and yet, still, like an open window to let sunlight through, belonged to everybody who was there. How many humans have we walked passed on our way to a mailbox, or the grocery store, or the woods who have stood where we stand now with thoughts that look just like ours.</div>
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Yesterday, I had tears in my eyes, they rolled from my face like wet cloth on a clothespin and I couldn't make out which flowers were cherry blossoms and which ones were dandelions. I could hear the ice cream truck merrily going off in the distance, but it has never sounded so sad, so unfamiliar to me. When your vision is blurred from crying eyes, it is a lot like being held together with sticky tape and not glue or muscle. You cannot see what is ahead of you, only the saddest feelings surface. After a certain amount of feeling hopeless, I closed my eyes and the song of every bird in the neighborhood started to mute the sad that was an ice cream truck's attempt to make me realize how I am not a child anymore and yesterday, I was not a child, and tomorrow, I will still be the adult version of <i>me</i>. The neighborhood birds chirped on as if it say "despite it all, you're still something worth holding, worth loving, and worth knowing."</div>
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If you are reading this,<br />
let it be known<br />
let yourself <br />
<i>be</i><br />
It is okay to cry<br />
In fact, it helps build muscle<br />
heart muscle<br />
so when your vision is blurred from crying eyes<br />
you can still see cherry blossoms<br />
and the tall grasses where dandelions grow<br />
you will wonder where the time has gone<br />
when an ice cream truck pulls into your neighborhood<br />
but that is okay too<br />
just because<br />
they tell you you're an adult, now<br />
doesn't mean you cannot have a dance floor <br />
under your bed spring<br />
or<br />
ice cream<br />
on the tip of your tongue <br />
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the good thing about living<br />
is not that it ends<br />
but that it has not ended<br />
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May tree blossoms from last spring sit in books and containers on the shelf next to our bed. They no longer carry that scent we have come to know as a sign of good things coming, but they'll do ever so slightly to make a winter less gloomy. Now, that the sun has woken from its seven month slumber, we can look to the trees and see new May blossoms forming like daybreak on our lids after what felt like long hours of not being able to sleep. I live for this time, as you know, and that is why I cannot go three sentences without writing about it. I have yet to discover a season that has ever felt as right as it does when the trees are alive like sonnets blowing in the wind. A sign of good things coming, no more winter howling, no more cheeks wet from longing for the raspberries or the honeybees, a banjo to ring out in the garden, and hands to pick flowers which soon will be growing. Spring brings with it a measureless peace and I dance such a dance when the warm sun is glowing.</div>
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Today, I celebrate, because we <i>won </i>the storyhive grant which means we'll be able to make a full music video! You wouldn't believe the goosebumps that fell onto my arm when I realized the news! I came running out of the bedroom and flopped onto the floor as if I had been transported back into happy childhood all over again and everything was as joyful as joy could be. I wish I could thank each and every one of you who voted, commented, and left your encouragement for the daunting task that was stepping outside of my comfort zone. I could not be me, be here, be as happy as I am today without you. </div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span title="Edited">Do you ever wake up from underneath the
blanket, only to feel a slight tinge of sorrow or regret and there is
absolutely no cause for you to feel this way. That is how I met morning β
slightly strange, slightly nervous, slightly curious with no need for
it, as if I said something wrong the evening before but I know I
couldn't have. Honeyed light pours through the kitchen window, a coffee
maker makes sounds I can hear, dried snapdragons are in view, dogs who
are snoring, what could it possibly be that brings me to a mood that is
not a celebration of all that this is? Perhaps, it is not a good time to
ask, just a time to go on as I do.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span title="Edited"> My weapon of choice. The banjo.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span title="Edited"> The reason I ever began singing and
ringing out what grows in the bones and the mind and the belly of a
human. If it weren't for this moon shaped machine, I could be traveling
through this wide unknown world less sure and certainly less satisfied.</span></span></span></span><br />
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When the world looks like roses before you.</div>
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been thinking of the mountains and how we are nearing the time where
wildflowers start to sprout and paint the wild brush that is a
mountainside. I grow tired of the city even though it does have good
offerings of it's own-- music, people, pipe dreams being born, but I
need that wild kind of strangeness and aliveness that seems to only
exist when I am not here. 'I am mountain bound' might very well be my
favorite sentence in the English language. After, 'I brought you
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span title="Edited">Here I am with two dried bouquets, one is
bright with snapdragon flowers and the other, made up of leftover plants
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span title="Edited">Can somebody send a little springtime to
my neck of the woods? I want to adventure, catch a glimpse of flowers,
toil in the soil, but May begins and although the may tree buds are
starting to green, I just want them to bloom because when they do, I'll
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span title="Edited">I slept in until 11 am for the first time in
years. Then, I was greeted by a warm plate of food made by a kindhearted woman I call my mum. Feeling lucky to be living today. Feeling
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shakes and uncertainty if it was something I could do - asking for help,
asking for votes, talking about myself and my dreams for one week
straight. I mean it when I say, I don't want to be a mosquito buzzing my
way into your feeds, taking you away from your day, putting a
microscope on me, but I now know that the weight of dreams is lifted and
softened when you let others help you, confide in you, and love you. I
have lived my entire life with the back of a turtle shell, always
hiding, always believing that I was unfit to be loved, but the truth is
as true as the sky can be blue, there are people in this world who want
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From where I sit, I can hear the black capped chickadees parading from treetop to treetop as if the whole world is theirs and something in me says that it is and I am just here visiting. Before I could truly know the beauty that is birds singing on a warm weather day, I had to hear the crows echo through the chimney as I shivered and sighed at the length of a winter. We earn our seasons here, so every drop of sunlight counts. Like memories do. Like life does. Like seconds appearing and disappearing. Like remembering your mother's voice. Or that time you stayed out on the hillside until morning. It is seeing the geese finally return or letting lemonade sit on your tongue. It is the way dust shows on the window and the sight that is dandelions growing from the ground. In you, there is a certain kind of knowing and if you listen to it, you might one day hear it say "you're just visiting, so sit slowly with that which one day you will live without."
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Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05829675701870939352noreply@blogger.com55tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3116951953903609223.post-34966958445176259862017-04-25T07:00:00.000-06:002017-04-25T10:28:31.716-06:00StoryHive Music Video: How Long Blues<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This is How Long Blues. A song I wrote that tells of the ache and wonder which exists in us all when we are mistreated by the ones we love. Being an artist in this day and age of videos, of being online, of having to dig through the roots of what makes you and sharing it with the world by the click of a button <span class="st">β</span> it is downright spooky and I have jumped into it head first today. </div>
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I entered a creative grant competition curated by <a href="http://www.storyhive.com/project/show/id/1877" target="_blank">Storyhive</a> with a music video pitch directed by filmmaker and friend, <a href="http://www.storyhive.com/creator/profile/id/1462822" target="_blank">Gillian <span class="_3c21">McKercher</span></a>. What could be more knee knocking, goosebumps standing on the arm, inner voice doubting you than this - having to tell you that I<i> *<u>need</u>*</i> votes if we are to make the pitch you see below into a full length music video.</div>
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It has been a little quieter around the blog as of late <span class="st">β</span> I have been busy with music happenings and trying to put my head towards windows whenever there are signs of spring. I never did do an April goals post, so here I am now with two months at once. Setting goals seems so easy when you say it. Of course I will do that, of course I <i><u>can </u></i>do that, but adhering to them is a whole another story. So, here, we go:</div>
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<li><b>Begin the garden.</b> I am so pleased to be able to finally admit that spring is here and gardening is about to begin. I need to weed, pull out leftover plants, prep, and make the soil sweet for planting this coming season. </li>
<li><b>Share my music video pitch. </b>I entered a grant competition with a kindred spirit <a href="https://vimeo.com/gillianmckercher" target="_blank"><i>filmmaker </i></a>here in Calgary. The idea is that you make a one minute pitch video featuring one of your songs and then your task is to campaign for votes. The ones with the most votes at the end of it all will get a monetary grant to pursue a music video. In a world where making art can be equally beautiful and <i>terrifyingly</i> vulnerable, I will need all the help I can get because asking for votes has a tendency to make my belly fill with butterflies (!)</li>
<li><b>Dry the carnation bouquet.</b> There it sits, by the windowsill, held up in a blue vase the color of seawater. How beautiful it could be if made to last by hanging it upside down in the dark basement. There, it will dry and then it will forever remain in our house, much like the snapdragon one in these photographs.</li>
<li><b>Go to Griffith Woods.</b> I love this space, it smells of pine and sounds of bird chatter. I want to live in a world where going here before the sun rises becomes a habit. <i>(Google, How do I get out of bed before 7 am?)</i></li>
<li><b>Explore more places on foot.</b> Now that the warm weather is rising, I have plenty of reason to see the world before me without getting into an automobile. There is something to be said about traveling on foot, it has a tendency to make you notice little things in a poetic appreciative sort - of - way.</li>
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Today, let there be throats singing and minds twirling at the promise of springtime in the woodland. I, a natural homebody, have learned over time that I need both here and there in equal measure before I can say I feel good enough. Sometimes, I forget it because I am so used to longing for home when I am not home and then when I am <i>here</i>, I wonder how much better I might feel if I were <i>there</i>. A conundrum of the city dweller and prairie minded woman, I suppose.</div>
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I used to stay home every night, never leaving my own cocoon of safety, sacrificing friendships and time spent exploring so I could be by myself. I thought it was near impossible to bring this inner world into the outer world and so I feared it. I spent hours in my room, making messes, feeling warm in the cheek as I laughed at my own jokes and invented my own wellspring of fun. I did not need anybody else, for anybody else could mean expectations and expectations were dangerous for the creative spirit, or so I thought. It took two hands and one banjo for me to realize that leaving home could mean the difference between an echo and a song. If I wanted to sing and reach from the grave that is loneliness, I needed a place to do so and that place couldn't only be where pillows lie or dresses hang in closets. </div>
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When I started leaving <i>here</i> for <i>there</i>, I realized just how much a human can take of breaking free from the starting point you cling onto because it seems easy. I will always be a homebody at heart, a delicate way of being inherited from my mother β but leaving showed me how far I could stretch to taste this life and at the end of each day, places are always made sweeter when it's not the only place you visit, a person always made wiser by doing what they <i>think</i> they cannot do.</div>
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<li><b>You</b> never know who you're going to meet. Yes β people can drain your energy reserves and make you want to put on running shoes and head for the hills, but they can also teach you, love you, and add birdseed and flowers to the unknown road that is life.</li>
<li><b>Leaving </b>home doesn't have to be forever and life doesn't have to be measured by homebody vs those who appear shinier when around others. Know your own limits and stretch it ever so slightly so you can enjoy the best of each world.</li>
<li><b>Take </b>a break from our own minds. Go to a coffee shop by yourself and eat a dessert, listen to the faintest sound of chatter, see how people are moving about, put your phone away and sit in that moment.</li>
<li><b>Inspiration</b> can come from anywhere. If you are always occupying the same spaces, you are likely to have the same thoughts, exploring somewhere new can bring you all sorts of untouched ways of seeing the world. </li>
<li><b>Adventure</b> β whether in the woods or in the city, whether scenery or people, stepping outside of your comfort zone can kick start your heart and who knows what will grow from it.</li>
<li><b>You</b> can always go home. Don't let anybody tell you that once you are out, you have to stay out. If you aren't having any fun, if anxiety is rising, or if you just cannot wait to hold the next chapter of a book or a film in your knuckles, go home. You tried. There will be other times and friends worth having will allow you to be <i>you. </i></li>
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To further prove how much I cling to home is to tell you how much trouble I ran into coming up with this list. If it weren't in argument of leaving home but instead for staying, it would probably come to 100 reasons or so. Now, I'm off to put the kettle on because home is where I'll be today.</div>
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<span class="_Tgc">As I am writing to you, the seasonal blues appear to have lifted, and so I have jumped from that thin trapeze directed by winter and onto a trampoline where dandelions and songs can sprout from. Time is strange and fleeting </span><span class="_Tgc">β I hope as I grow older I can learn the way of not wishing days to pass just so I can be closer to daylight in the garden. A day is a day and so many fine things can be found there.</span></div>
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<span class="_Tgc"><i>For previous visits to the garden center, you can look <a href="http://www.amyflyingakite.com/2015/10/a-visit-to-garden-center.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://www.amyflyingakite.com/2016/05/sowing-in-garden.html" target="_blank">here</a>. </i></span></div>
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