Works In Progress.

 
I woke up to a bunch of new people engaging with my work, so I wanted to say ‘hello’ and ‘welcome’, to introduce myself a little more. I’m Jessie, an arts therapist, educator and artist. I live and work in Melbourne, Au
We found that trees could communicate, over the air and through their roots. Common sense hooted us down. We found that trees take care of each other. Collective science dismissed the idea. Outsiders discovered how seeds remember the seasons of their
There are a hundred thousand species of love, separately invented, each more ingenious than the last, and every one of them keeps making things. – Richard Powers
The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power. – Simon De Beavoir
You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens. – Rumi
Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious exist
//Perpetual Novice// • • • Sometimes these things come creeping up on you; stretching their tendrils out from quiet corners. Seeping, curling, surging upon you. They’re at your edges first, pulling away small crumbs, dissolving a
Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge. Yet all too often, guilt is just another na
both. i want to stay. i want to leave. i am three oceans away from my soul. — lost – Nayyirah Waheed
Eyes are sensitized.
The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things. – Rainer Maria Rilke
Interplay
Stacks on stacks
I spent the first day,(in months) in my own company today, with both my kids back in the arms of their teachers. Pausing to come back into myself. I danced, painted, and finally got my online stockroom up and running. #onlytookthreeyears
Unless we are very, very careful, we doom each other by holding onto images of one another based on preconceptions that are in turn based on indifference to what is other than ourselves...The opposite of this inattention is love, is the honoring of o
Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself. – e.e. cummings
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after wi