The Wild Natriarch 🌿✨
@thewildnatriarch.bsky.social
🖤 motherer 🌱 naturer 🧶 crafter 🧵maker 📚 learner ✍🏻 writer
📸 capturer 💡 realist-dreamer ❤️🔥 bleeding heart-er
📍Mni Sóta Makoce
📸 capturer 💡 realist-dreamer ❤️🔥 bleeding heart-er
📍Mni Sóta Makoce
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I started these (mostly native) gardens from turf lawn 2 years ago & I can hardly believe it myself. One of the best things I've ever done. 🖤
Lessons from MN: get to know your neighbors. You don't need to be besties, but be familiar & recognizable. Keep an eye out for each other. Exchange phone numbers. Host block parties, game nights, or crafternoons. Share tools & recipes. Check on vulnerable neighbors regularly. Build NOW. 🖤
January 29, 2026 at 2:50 AM
Lessons from MN: get to know your neighbors. You don't need to be besties, but be familiar & recognizable. Keep an eye out for each other. Exchange phone numbers. Host block parties, game nights, or crafternoons. Share tools & recipes. Check on vulnerable neighbors regularly. Build NOW. 🖤
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pulling this reflection on white silence/fear over here, too:
January 15, 2026 at 4:41 PM
pulling this reflection on white silence/fear over here, too:
As things were unfolding over north last night, I watched live reporting to stay aligned with reality. Agitators & outsiders will never understand the level of care/community/restraint, but I watched it with my own eyes. Neighbors checking on one another & the journalist & person filming. People🧵1
January 15, 2026 at 2:25 PM
As things were unfolding over north last night, I watched live reporting to stay aligned with reality. Agitators & outsiders will never understand the level of care/community/restraint, but I watched it with my own eyes. Neighbors checking on one another & the journalist & person filming. People🧵1
Things appear to be business as usual elsewhere in The Cities today, but I can feel it. Every person I interacted with in the community today acted with a kindness & gentleness that felt different from our normal MN Nice. We got us. 🖤
January 8, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Things appear to be business as usual elsewhere in The Cities today, but I can feel it. Every person I interacted with in the community today acted with a kindness & gentleness that felt different from our normal MN Nice. We got us. 🖤
Take a slow, deep breath. Close your eyes. Another breath. Relax your face. Another. Relax your shoulders. Another. Drink a glass of water. Get comfy.
📢 YOU NEED TO PROCESS YOUR GRIEF/RAGE. 📢
Sit with it. Talk about it. Move your body. Stop looking at screens. Rest even if you can't sleep. 🖤
📢 YOU NEED TO PROCESS YOUR GRIEF/RAGE. 📢
Sit with it. Talk about it. Move your body. Stop looking at screens. Rest even if you can't sleep. 🖤
January 8, 2026 at 5:59 AM
Take a slow, deep breath. Close your eyes. Another breath. Relax your face. Another. Relax your shoulders. Another. Drink a glass of water. Get comfy.
📢 YOU NEED TO PROCESS YOUR GRIEF/RAGE. 📢
Sit with it. Talk about it. Move your body. Stop looking at screens. Rest even if you can't sleep. 🖤
📢 YOU NEED TO PROCESS YOUR GRIEF/RAGE. 📢
Sit with it. Talk about it. Move your body. Stop looking at screens. Rest even if you can't sleep. 🖤
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“Do not let the lamp of hope dim in the chaos that descends. May peace know you by name.”
January 1, 2026 at 2:13 PM
“Do not let the lamp of hope dim in the chaos that descends. May peace know you by name.”
Laying on your back alone in the snow while it's still snowing is a top tier experience.
[📸 by me]
[📸 by me]
December 29, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Laying on your back alone in the snow while it's still snowing is a top tier experience.
[📸 by me]
[📸 by me]
MNwx forecast on Christmas Eve: expect dusting of snow Sunday
Christmas: 1-3in snow on Sunday!
Friday: 1-2in snow possible Sunday
Saturday: ⚠️ 4-8in snow Sunday ⚠️ winter storm watch starts 6a ⚠️ gird your loins ⚠️ prepare thy pantries & emergency rations ⚠️
Sunday will either be 🦗 or ❄️🌨️🌨️❄️🌨️🥶❄️🌨️❄️
Christmas: 1-3in snow on Sunday!
Friday: 1-2in snow possible Sunday
Saturday: ⚠️ 4-8in snow Sunday ⚠️ winter storm watch starts 6a ⚠️ gird your loins ⚠️ prepare thy pantries & emergency rations ⚠️
Sunday will either be 🦗 or ❄️🌨️🌨️❄️🌨️🥶❄️🌨️❄️
December 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
MNwx forecast on Christmas Eve: expect dusting of snow Sunday
Christmas: 1-3in snow on Sunday!
Friday: 1-2in snow possible Sunday
Saturday: ⚠️ 4-8in snow Sunday ⚠️ winter storm watch starts 6a ⚠️ gird your loins ⚠️ prepare thy pantries & emergency rations ⚠️
Sunday will either be 🦗 or ❄️🌨️🌨️❄️🌨️🥶❄️🌨️❄️
Christmas: 1-3in snow on Sunday!
Friday: 1-2in snow possible Sunday
Saturday: ⚠️ 4-8in snow Sunday ⚠️ winter storm watch starts 6a ⚠️ gird your loins ⚠️ prepare thy pantries & emergency rations ⚠️
Sunday will either be 🦗 or ❄️🌨️🌨️❄️🌨️🥶❄️🌨️❄️
Whoever you are, whether or not you're celebrating anything, I hope the love you receive this week outweighs the load you're carrying. 🖤
December 25, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Whoever you are, whether or not you're celebrating anything, I hope the love you receive this week outweighs the load you're carrying. 🖤
Went to lunch at noon & it was lovely out — snow melting, roads great, almost left my coat in the car. Came out an hour-ish later to frigid wind, temps 10-15°F colder, whiteout conditions, blowing snow, icy roads. Be careful out there, MN friends! ❄️🌨️🧊
a man in a hooded jacket is being held by a woman in a grey sweater
Alt: GIF from A Christmas Story of the youngest son in a very puffy burgundy hooded snowsuit, mittens, and hat with his mom wrapping a scarf around what little remains visible of his face.
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December 18, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Went to lunch at noon & it was lovely out — snow melting, roads great, almost left my coat in the car. Came out an hour-ish later to frigid wind, temps 10-15°F colder, whiteout conditions, blowing snow, icy roads. Be careful out there, MN friends! ❄️🌨️🧊
I've said it before & I'll say it again — these parents think their kids were ruined by participation trophies*, but desperately want a participation trophy of their own.
🏆 Bare Minimum Parent
*we didn't give them to ourselves...
🏆 Bare Minimum Parent
*we didn't give them to ourselves...
December 16, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I've said it before & I'll say it again — these parents think their kids were ruined by participation trophies*, but desperately want a participation trophy of their own.
🏆 Bare Minimum Parent
*we didn't give them to ourselves...
🏆 Bare Minimum Parent
*we didn't give them to ourselves...
Watched Come See Me In The Good Light on 🍎TV & the way I cackled & sobbed, often simultaneously — OOF. It was tender & heavy & queer & funny & light & everyone should watch it. What a gift to still be able to read Andrea's words even in their absence. 🖤
December 10, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Watched Come See Me In The Good Light on 🍎TV & the way I cackled & sobbed, often simultaneously — OOF. It was tender & heavy & queer & funny & light & everyone should watch it. What a gift to still be able to read Andrea's words even in their absence. 🖤
In another universe, he continues... "and that's why ANYONE who has a baby will be paid my salary for the first 2yrs of the baby's life. We will provide the most nutritious foods available, a weekly housekeeper, & childcare — all FREE of cost. Parents & babies MATTER & reducing stress is vital!"
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 9, 2025 at 12:13 AM
In another universe, he continues... "and that's why ANYONE who has a baby will be paid my salary for the first 2yrs of the baby's life. We will provide the most nutritious foods available, a weekly housekeeper, & childcare — all FREE of cost. Parents & babies MATTER & reducing stress is vital!"
Saw a cat under the sewer grate in our neighborhood & I haven't 💩 alone since!
December 8, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Saw a cat under the sewer grate in our neighborhood & I haven't 💩 alone since!
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“But this is how everything broken heals. You must hold it close when it cries out and love it until it is holy.”
December 7, 2025 at 11:26 PM
“But this is how everything broken heals. You must hold it close when it cries out and love it until it is holy.”
If you've reached your doom limit for today, read about these badass Minnesotans taking risks, doing it scared, & refusing to back down. WE protect us! 🖤
‘Tinted windows and out-of-state plates’: How ICE watchers look for agents in their neighborhoods
Across the Twin Cities, ICE agents and activists are playing a high stakes cat-and-mouse game. The goal is to make their job as difficult as possible and protect their immigrant neighbors.
www.mprnews.org
December 6, 2025 at 12:48 AM
If you've reached your doom limit for today, read about these badass Minnesotans taking risks, doing it scared, & refusing to back down. WE protect us! 🖤
Two roads diverged in the snowy wood & I—
I took neither because I am not a bunny & do not fit under the bushes,
And that has made all the difference.
I took neither because I am not a bunny & do not fit under the bushes,
And that has made all the difference.
December 3, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Two roads diverged in the snowy wood & I—
I took neither because I am not a bunny & do not fit under the bushes,
And that has made all the difference.
I took neither because I am not a bunny & do not fit under the bushes,
And that has made all the difference.
Hey crafty community, where do you get quality coloring books? Shopping for elementary-aged kiddos & the amount of 💩 ai-generated coloring books on 💩 thin paper is depressing. Michael's in-store selection was awful & I won't support 🎯, WMart, or the 'zon. There's gotta be something else!
December 2, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Hey crafty community, where do you get quality coloring books? Shopping for elementary-aged kiddos & the amount of 💩 ai-generated coloring books on 💩 thin paper is depressing. Michael's in-store selection was awful & I won't support 🎯, WMart, or the 'zon. There's gotta be something else!
It's officially Baking Season & I am HERE FOR IT. Woke up to snow & started raspberry pretzel salad for the requisite meal, made a birthday cake to frost tomorrow, started a pie with homemade crust for Friday, started mint bars per request, & fed the sourdough starter for this weekend. 🧑🏼🍳🪄🥧
three women are preparing a potion in a cauldron in a kitchen .
Alt: GIF of Sabrina the Teenage Witch and her aunts adding an ingredient to a cauldron which shoots smoke/steam in response
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November 27, 2025 at 5:29 AM
It's officially Baking Season & I am HERE FOR IT. Woke up to snow & started raspberry pretzel salad for the requisite meal, made a birthday cake to frost tomorrow, started a pie with homemade crust for Friday, started mint bars per request, & fed the sourdough starter for this weekend. 🧑🏼🍳🪄🥧
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Anne Frank & Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. were born in 1929. Viola Fletcher, who just died this week, was already 15 when they were born.
But while we were just with Ms. Fletcher days ago, Anne Frank & Dr King are portrayed as ancient history.
Remember, "The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
But while we were just with Ms. Fletcher days ago, Anne Frank & Dr King are portrayed as ancient history.
Remember, "The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
November 27, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Anne Frank & Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. were born in 1929. Viola Fletcher, who just died this week, was already 15 when they were born.
But while we were just with Ms. Fletcher days ago, Anne Frank & Dr King are portrayed as ancient history.
Remember, "The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
But while we were just with Ms. Fletcher days ago, Anne Frank & Dr King are portrayed as ancient history.
Remember, "The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
Hey, you wanna get sweaty with no warning several times most days? You'll definitely want to shower after iykwim... 😏
SURPRiSE BiTCH, IT'S PERiMENOPAUSE!!! Anyway you can't shower — just stay damp all day & try not to be a bItch. K love you bye. 😘
SURPRiSE BiTCH, IT'S PERiMENOPAUSE!!! Anyway you can't shower — just stay damp all day & try not to be a bItch. K love you bye. 😘
a picture of a woman with the caption your senses have just been affronted
Alt: GIF of Moira Rose from Schitt's Creek gesturing emphatically and saying "YOUR SENSES HAVE JUST BEEN AFFRONTED"
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November 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Hey, you wanna get sweaty with no warning several times most days? You'll definitely want to shower after iykwim... 😏
SURPRiSE BiTCH, IT'S PERiMENOPAUSE!!! Anyway you can't shower — just stay damp all day & try not to be a bItch. K love you bye. 😘
SURPRiSE BiTCH, IT'S PERiMENOPAUSE!!! Anyway you can't shower — just stay damp all day & try not to be a bItch. K love you bye. 😘
When I plan crafty projects, I take pics I can reference to get missing supplies without pulling everything out again. 1=fabric for a puff quilt 2=yarn for a crochet blanket 3=fabric I acquired yesterday because LOOK AT IT!!! Haven't even *started* the first 2 projects. Is it 80HD? Crafter brain?🧵1
November 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
When I plan crafty projects, I take pics I can reference to get missing supplies without pulling everything out again. 1=fabric for a puff quilt 2=yarn for a crochet blanket 3=fabric I acquired yesterday because LOOK AT IT!!! Haven't even *started* the first 2 projects. Is it 80HD? Crafter brain?🧵1
The neighborhood kids came to visit Louie outside the sewers for the first time & brought him this toy with pickles in santa hats. He loves it! 🐈💥🥒🎅✨
November 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
The neighborhood kids came to visit Louie outside the sewers for the first time & brought him this toy with pickles in santa hats. He loves it! 🐈💥🥒🎅✨
Hello to all the MN transplants finding out about snow today! 🌨️ If you haven't mastered layering clothes & outerwear, it's time to experiment before winter really hits. Start looking for:
• thick+warm socks
• grippy+warm+waterproof boots
• waterproof coat/jacket
• warm mittens
• warm hat
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• thick+warm socks
• grippy+warm+waterproof boots
• waterproof coat/jacket
• warm mittens
• warm hat
🧵1
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Hello to all the MN transplants finding out about snow today! 🌨️ If you haven't mastered layering clothes & outerwear, it's time to experiment before winter really hits. Start looking for:
• thick+warm socks
• grippy+warm+waterproof boots
• waterproof coat/jacket
• warm mittens
• warm hat
🧵1
• thick+warm socks
• grippy+warm+waterproof boots
• waterproof coat/jacket
• warm mittens
• warm hat
🧵1
What's fun about perimenopause is that it feels the same as the somatic experience of anxiety. Mentally I'm good, but physically I'm sweaty & drained. It took so long for me to actually feel those feelings in my body that those feelings NOT being anxiety now really sucks. 🫠
a man with a chain around his neck has the words i 'm not really in the mood to be a victim of a hate crime
Alt: GIF of David Rose from Schitt's Creek visibly annoyed saying "I'm not really in the mood to be a victim of a hate crime tonight" while trying to secure a curtain blowing in the wind.
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November 7, 2025 at 4:10 AM
What's fun about perimenopause is that it feels the same as the somatic experience of anxiety. Mentally I'm good, but physically I'm sweaty & drained. It took so long for me to actually feel those feelings in my body that those feelings NOT being anxiety now really sucks. 🫠