a sunny place

hey you guys wanna see my newest favorite picture

[ID/ a photograph of a hot drink (coffee or cocoa) from above. Overlayed is the text "Been so worried about getting my life together I almost forgot I've achieved some of my childhood dreams" /end ID]

why don't you calm down and look up the little auk

[ID: digitally illustrated comic of a marimo ball with a small smiling face, talking to the viewer. They say “hello! I’m a marimo ball. I’m algae made round by gentle waves of the lake.” They are surrounded by many other marimo balls of different sizes. They continue, saying “These are my marimo friends! we’d all like to wish you a gentle week full of good things! marimos, roll out!” The marimos start to move off the page. /end ID]

Big fan of “Better late than never” and “Better a little than none” when it comes to things that I know are good for me. It is doing the things that matter, in whatever capacity you can, cause let’s face it: Sometimes you have been doing so badly that doing anything at all is a huge win and something that takes a lot. Sometimes you have been doing some other things and sometimes you are just so so exhausted. A little bit matters, doing it later than ideal or planned matters, being kind to yourself matters. 🌸

I've posted about this before but back home at my old job I used to get pho so fucking often that the owners of the place stopped asking me what I wanted and stopped handing me menus when I walked in. After I moved to NY and I could only go back to Chicago like once a year, I sat down and they gave me a menu and I was like "Oh no I already know what I want, can I get--" and they were like OHHH #36 WITH EXTRA NOODLES YOU'RE BACK and I almost cried