1. this sunflower-to-be.
![dirt in a white pot](https://readingmytealeaves.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/planted_seed_IMG_7779.jpg)
{we’ll be on sprout watch over spring break.}
2. the return of this lightweight blanket*.
![ecru blanket on a twin bed](https://readingmytealeaves.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/blanket_IMG_7800.jpg)
{and faye’s quiet attempts to make her bed each morning.}
3. this little bundle.
![twine and string on a wooden table](https://readingmytealeaves.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/woven_pouch_reading_my_tea_leaves_IMG_7576-1.jpg)
{for being so compact and so satisfying.}
4. the semi-annual canvas bag reckoning.
![bags hanging in a closet](https://readingmytealeaves.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/totes_IMG_7792.jpg)
{and the final edit.}
5. lopsided tulips.
![tulips in a white pitcher](https://readingmytealeaves.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/tulips_IMG_7791.jpg)
{droopy and faded but still lovely to look at.}
other things:
curating meaning in our online lives.
she always does things i find suspicious, and they always turn out delicious…
comfort and loneliness, hope and foreboding…
the female body is seen as the atypical body.
where life is precious, life is precious.
with warm weather on the brain.*
also, this. (yellow plaid is a neutral.)
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4 Comments
In re to the article about things designed with men as the default human, I remember a pain meds commercial back when I was a teen that advertised the regular pills and the pills for women. I talked with friends and parents about how crazy it was that the regular meds weren’t called meds for men, they were just considered the baseline. Everyone thought I was nuts. It was such an assumption, even in the 90s, that men were the norm. As for now, has anyone noticed that autocorrect was clearly designed by a man?
That piece from The Cut really…cut deep. Of course, we already know the sorry truths it lays out, but for some reason it’s particularly poignant this time around.
I am guilty for keeping fresh flowers in the house a bit too long after they are looking their best, so I can totally relate to those lopsided tulips
xxx
Isabel
https://isabelstories.com/
I always think flowers look the best when they start to droop and fade.
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