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Happy first of Pride Month! I’m a little sad as my country doesn’t really have Pride festivals or parades in June (we have them primarily in February) but I still like to get in the spirit of Pride in June as well :)

But I promise you, nature is not as far away from you as it may feel.

I’ve felt that too. Some days I desperately want to go outside, to be surrounded by trees and dirt and wind, but I’m limited by my own circumstances. So I’ve had to learn how to find the natural world in smaller, softer ways.

Sometimes I sit on my porch, lie on a blanket, and just stare at the sky. I thank it for being there. I watch the clouds move. I let the air touch me.

Sometimes I look out my window and see birds, and immediately think of Hera.

Some days I’m too sick to get out of bed, so I get a glass of water, swirl it around, and listen to it. And yes, maybe it sounds silly, but I hear the ocean in it. That water still belongs to the natural world. It still came from somewhere ancient.

If you can’t go to the woods, you can watch a nature documentary and thank Pan or Artemis or any deity you associate with the wild.

If you can’t walk barefoot in the grass, you can touch a houseplant.

If you can’t sit under the moon, you can look at a photo of her.

If all you can do today is breathe, then breathe with the earth. That counts too.

Nature is not only found in forests, mountains, rivers, and beautiful places far away from you.

It is in your tap water. It is in the birds outside your window. It is in the weeds growing through concrete. It is in the sky above your home. It is in your own body, your breath, your hunger, your tiredness, your heartbeat.

Please don’t feel discouraged if your connection looks small right now.

Small is still sacred.

So may I present my own casting choice for Odysseus:

Absolutely not

You know who would try that shit?

Is this the face of a man who would defy the very gods to get home to his wife?

You know who would defy the gods just to show he could get away with it?

🫧 sound

music, bells, pots and pans, singing

🫧 liquid

charged or blessed water, alcohol, vinegar, essential oil sprays

🫧 scents

candles, essential oils (diffused)

🫧 physical cleaning

sweep

vacuum

wipe down

*make a blend of cleansing herbs, sprinkle around your space, and either sweep it out the back door or vacuum it up and dispose of the contents

🫧 simmer pots [for the steam]

🫧 rearrange your space

🫧 open your windows

🫧 visualization + meditation

🫧 sun, moon, or starlight

🫧 rain + storms

🫧 the elements

earth - salt floor sweep

air - breath and wind

fire - heat and sunlight

water - see above

🫧 salt

place a bowl of salt in the main room of your home

🫧 crystals

place in the center or corner of the space you want to cleanse

I don’t know if there’s anything I like more than someone showing me something and saying “I thought you’d like this” or “This made me think of you”. It genuinely makes me smile so much. Usually it’s my kid giving me a flower or a pretty rock or something, and I really love that, but now there are folks here doing the same! I absolutely love when I see that someone’s tagged me in a post that reminded them of me. I feel so seen, and honestly, loved

I wish I came across posts that remind me of my mutuals too, but my entire feed is full of cats…

Chasing across the South Plains and Midwest