willow crowns
The May Love List: I watched, read, saw, and experienced this month
It’s the last day of May, and here’s the list of things I loved this month. (This post is long, so if you’re reading in your email, please click through to the website to read the whole thing.)
Technically, this happened on the last day of April, but I got to tag along with my neighbors to Forest School. It was so healing to watch young people thriving in communion with nature. I also climbed halfway up a mountain, which helped me feel like I was back inside my body after many months away.
On the first of May, I made willow crowns for Beltane.
We transferred plants into our boxes, planted some flower seeds, and developed our relationship not only with the crows*, but also the blue jays, which was unexpected. It never ceases to delight me how the wildlife thrives in our urban backyard.
*I’m actually pretty sure it’s one crow, the same crow, who visits us for peanuts every day. ❤️
Things I watched, read, and listened to this month:
The Four Seasons is one of my comfort movies, so I was excited but also a little wary when I heard about the remake (I tend not to love remakes), but I loved this. It’s rare to see an accurate depiction of people in my age demographic. I hope this signals more to come.
Justice is not an exchange of suffering
This is my favorite sort of ghost story.
This documentary deeply affected me. I cried through most of it. I hope he knows how loved he was.
We’ve been enjoying the PBS SoCal series Lost LA on YouTube, which led us to this Artbound episode about Frank Lloyd Wright.
Oh! And my brother has a new album out. Give it a listen - it’s so good!
I started a video series where I talk about people I find interesting. First up, Edgar Cayce.
We finished up the month with my youngest niece’s high school graduation. I’m so proud of them and so proud of their sister, who graduates from college in a few days. I am now an aunt to a small and brilliant group of adults. Being an aunt to them is the best.
After the commencement ceremony, I stood on the balcony and looked down at the swirling sea of families, loved ones holding bouquets of flowers for their graduates, a mosaic of races and ethnicities. Such a beautiful diversity of people, all of us in love, all of us in joy, allowing space for one another to be. Why, I wondered, would anyone cleave to the lie of white supremacy when this is the truth?
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I’m Lori-Lyn - a writer and artist who believes in living creatively, dreaming intuitively, dancing in the cosmic energy, the healing light of nature, and story, and being weird. I write Creative Living Diaries and share my in-progress spiritual memoir, Cosmic Heart.
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