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Writing, creativity, nature, intentional living, food, gardening, adventures, wildlife, mindfulness, wellbeing, bujo, little joys. 🏕️ feed. See my lists & starter pack! SE UK. Pics mine. I don't follow-back AI, scraped content, politics, rage, ad streams.

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Nancy 💚✍🏻 @contactwithcreation.com · 24d

A grateful heart is a resilient heart.

#Gratitude is the antidote to suffering. We suffer according to our level of self-pity - or how much we internalise and identify with the bad thing. But you can't feel self-pity and gratitude at the same time - they are opposites! #ChooseJoy 💚 #TinyJoys

A red admiral butterfly - black with red and white markings - showing an amazing blue sheen on its black parts. It's feeding on bright pink buddleia, in sunshine.

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 7h

Let your heart be broken – superb short read: www.themarginalian.org/2023/04/23/l...

Let Your Heart Be Broken

“The miracle is that we rise again out of suffering… The miracle is that we create ourselves anew.”

www.themarginalian.org

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Jim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social · 5h

My painting PEAK DISTRICT

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 4h

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 12:
When you're getting ready to edit your first draft, change the font. It will trick your brain into reading anew, so you won't just skip over the familiar text...

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Nancy 💚✍🏻 @contactwithcreation.com · 11h

A much nicer start than the last few, this morning! 😊

Sun rises over tree line with light pinkish clouds in a blue sky.

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Nancy 💚✍🏻 @contactwithcreation.com · 13h

✍🏻 Wisdom in my inbox yesterday from Jericho Writers:

"A story isn’t about what happens; it’s about how what happens changes the people in the story."

#WritingCommunity

Jericho Writers @jerichowriters.bsky.social · 1d

Read this week's Tuesday newsletter blog for tips on marrying events and arcs from romcom author Laura Starkey: zurl.co/LgoSb

Nancy 💚✍🏻 @contactwithcreation.com · 13h

After several years trying and failing to grow purslane, I've discovered I can only grow it in my path 🙃

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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 18h

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A fluffy black and white cat runs out of the garden of a narrow blue fairy-tale-like cottage, meowing a greeting at his two humans at the end of a work day.
Tail held high, he leads them inside, updating them on all his feline news. (1)

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 14h

A favorite #birddivination – one of the last I made before finishing the set of 100 (which you can find, along with the story and process behind them, almanacofbirds.org)

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Nancy 💚✍🏻 @contactwithcreation.com · 22h

I will have to start experimenting more! 😄

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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 1d

Annual PSA. The chemistry of Autumn leaves.
www.compoundchem.com/2014/09/11/a...

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Nancy 💚✍🏻 @contactwithcreation.com · 1d

We persist 💚

I'd be interested in hearing about how you cook with the hyssop - I love the smell but I'm not sure what to do with it. And people are always asking me at the community garden!

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Nancy 💚✍🏻 @contactwithcreation.com · 1d

Raised bed update. We had to dig to locate the soakaway (marked now by chalked bricks) as the kit we've ordered has long fixing pegs to hammer in. And we've got sand at the ready to properly level the site. Delivery was bumped from yesterday to today... 🤞🏻🌱

A bare level rectangle of brown earth - the site where we'll build a new raised bed from a Woodblocx kit. Raised patio behind, and a brick-edged lawn in front.

#UKGarden

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 1d

Autumnal collection, including little owl feather, seedheads & various lovely things that fell off trees.
Zoom in to the details if you’re feeling stressed-the patterns in nature have been shown to help our brains relax🪶:

A collection of seedheads, acorns, sycamore keys, dried flowers, lichen, a little owl feather & a piece of Baltic amber on a white watercolour paper background

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Nancy 💚✍🏻 @contactwithcreation.com · 2d

Wowow 😍 I adore Crummock Water 🥰

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Andrew Locking @andrews-walks.bsky.social · 7d

Crummock Water reflections

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Nancy 💚✍🏻 @contactwithcreation.com · 2d

Aaaaand I've just added a few extras from THIS list! 😄 Thank you!

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Nancy 💚✍🏻 @contactwithcreation.com · 2d

Look at the wonderful people on my Little Joys list in my profile! (Or my starter pack, but the list is more up to date.)

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Ray Bilcliff - Photography @raybilcliff.com · 2d

The sun climbs slowly, a burnished blade.
Cutting night where the shadows fade.
Wave on rock, just a pulse in time.
Steady as a working rhyme.
A gull cries sharp, the sky replies.
Gold drips down where water lies.
Engines hum on the distant sea.
Dawn keeps marching patiently.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 2d

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.

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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 2d

Colour therapy on a grey day in the park.

carpet of orange and red and yellow leaves on grass

carpet of deep red leaves. the lower sides are pink so this carpet is a mix of both. on grass.

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Nancy 💚✍🏻 @contactwithcreation.com · 2d

Good luck! 🌻

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Mark Williamson @markrwilliamson.bsky.social · 2d

Life is precious and we live for around 4000 weeks. Try to spend as few as possible lost in negativity and as many as possible fully present

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 3d

Iranian artist Maryam Ashkanian embroiders images of sleeping people onto handmade pillows for her ongoing series, 'Sleep' #WomensArt

Photo of a white pillow with the head and shoulders of a sleeping woman sewn into the fabric

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Davesphotos 🇨🇦 🍁🍁🍁 @davesadventures.bsky.social · 2d

Today along the river near our place! #Photography #EastCoastKin

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Juniper Savage @theoliphantunicorn.bsky.social · 2d

All good things are wild and free. ~ Henry David Thoreau 🌻
#wildandfree #wildthing #befree #freelikeaflower #freedomflowers #flowers #sunflowers #bloomscrolling #freedom #allgoodthings #flowersforfreedom #wild #free #bewild #growfree

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