#citywitch

FORGOT THIS ONE

This was also for class but not an art class! It was motivational psychology, actually, and our overarching term project was to pick a goal and document our progress on it. My goal was to create a short comic over the course of the semester, so I did all the designs and scripting and this is as far as I wound up getting! 

If I were to go back and polish it I’d probably add at least one more page and probably refine the angles on a lot of the panels, but for a very rough draft I think it came out pretty good. 

My fiance and I have, over the past year, have agreed that we are exhausted by the energies within the city, and have decided to move across country and live on a homestead.

Ah, summer. Finally. In the PNW it is always a long wait for the four months of the year that are somewhat warm and sunny. This year, instead of celebrating from a bar patio or at a grill out with friends, I had to figure out how to ring in my fave season completely solo. I mentioned that one of my biggest sources of energy is being around the people in the city, charging off of the emotions and love and fun that comes with a bustling bar and restaurant scene. So, even as a solitary practitioner, I was in a pinch due to the Stay Home order.

BUT being a chaote I’m all about experimentation and substitution, so I looked for ways to celebrate that err on the slightly more traditional side of what I normally do. I bought and ate a lot of fresh local fruit, as well as some fresh baked oat bread with a little honey butter from my local supermarket. I took a stroll through the neighborhood and collected flowers and dandelions from neighbors *NOTE: I never take flowers that are going to be missed. You can absolutely snag a sprig of lilac/cherry blossom/lavender/bluebells around here and no one will be any the wiser.* I took a cleansing bath with a flower petal filled bathbomb. 

We also live in a townhouse, and our neighbor put a rudimentary fire pit in his yard area recently, so I was excited about the potential of an actual bonfire... until it started to rain. So I lit a candle as my little bonfire. Around 9pm, my partner pointed out that it had stopped raining! So I grabbed a bottle of rose wine and we drank and talked and had a blast, just the two of us. I then had a brief commune with the gods.

For all bby witches still in the broom closet: I see you. Maybe scared about being called out by family while at home right now. Eating fruit, drinking tea, picking flowers (and pressing them <3), taking a fancy bath, lighting a candle... this is ALL stuff you can do in plain sight to celebrate without suspicion. Don’t have fresh local fruit? You have canned? Fruit snacks? Chocolate covered raisins? SUBSTITUTE. It’s really alright. This is a celebration. This is *YOUR* celebration. You can’t go wrong. No candles? Light a match or a lighter briefly to have your own little fire to appreciate for a moment. Watch a youtube video of a bonfire! The possibilities are endless  Don’t let anyone make you feel like you are doing it wrong if you don’t have access to fancier things.