Ankle healing so lots of stillness as winter settles around with its darkness, cold, and today rain...a pausing as waiting as composting

Gingko ink is the slowest of all the trees I've made ink with (35 different species?). I'm coaxing, watching, waiting, learning about slowing down, a process that seems like it has no end

So thrilled to have been able to see Dierdrick Brackens' work in person after it admiring it online for so long. Of course, and as usual, the in-person material experience is infinitely richer and more inspiring. Love this work. Feels so important for this moment

Ways to resist: keep doing the good work you have already been doing...

Galls on an Ash tree, a multi species collaboration of sorts. Might try to gather a few to see what kind of ink they make since galls are usually a very concentrated form of tannins

Walking with Hemlock this morning for a bit, sensing they feel like death doulas in this time, for themselves and the world