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There's something so grounding about being outside and actually feeling nature with all of your senses at once. It's a great reminder that we are part of it all, that we have the ability to reconnect with simplicity and with being present. Today I spent t
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The things we covet. Lately I've been thinking about this-- I find myself longing for such specific emotions, as if they're things I can collect within myself. I have this fierce, panicked grasping feeling, a desperation to hold on to them for as long as
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Clarity is a special gift. I tend to live in a world of infinite possibility-- which comes with the attributes of flexibility, opportunistic insight, and lots of muddy what ifs. Is it real? It could be. Why not. --It makes for fun brainstorms in the spiri
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I think animals can teach you a lot about yourself if you're willing to consider the lessons. With this one I am slowly relearning what it means to be patient.
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Tell me where you want to go and I'll wander with you. I promise I'll be good company--even when we are lost and blind and exhausted and we've left everything we know behind. Even when we travel in the dark and we ache and we are weathered--it'll be part
LindsayJuneNohl:
I'm sitting on the Shinkansen back to Tokyo after 10 days of adventuring in Southern Japan. I met some wonderful people, ran myself ragged, slept very little, but truly had an incredible adventure. . I am at a turning point, I think, where I am looking ha
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Fourth quarter is funny because it's a lot of work-- all of my projects culminate into a froth of late nights and coffee and lists and the occasional headache. I've plowed through audio books and countless pots of tea, and I look forward to going to bed w
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Made some jewelry tonight with Phantom quartz: a crystal for universal energy, healing, understanding, and transformation. And made some necklaces for a few people I care about. It's been a stupid week full of lots of sadness and worry and today I sat at
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Sad tonight.
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I've been thinking about patterns lately because I've got my students doing a national parks pattern project right now in class, and I've been preparing for next semester's analog and digital pattern classes that I'll teach for MCAD's continuing education
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The downstairs cats all settled down eventually and sat behind me on the couch. I have to be careful because late-night painting with so many furry friends gets treacherous. Paint is a beacon. You pull it out and all the cats in the neighborhood want to s
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Bought three Joseph Campbell books today from the used bookstore and instead of reading them, I'm doing something else self indulgent and making patterns. I have a pile of books about 12 deep (maybe more) that I fully intend on reading but haven't quite g
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Thinking back to October days camping in England near blackberry bushes and waking up to bitter instant coffee and ready-brek, (which I think we made terribly wrong, but was helped greatly by the surrounding edible foliage). Wishing I had my watercolors h
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Today I'm a catching up on work that needs to get done. Fall is a time for making plans, being motivated and getting ready to hunker down to work on stuff during chilly nights with a warm pot of tea and a huge Icelandic sweater. For whatever reason fall a
LindsayJuneNohl:
Spent last night making samples for my Pendulums class this weekend for the Young Mystics program at Light Grey! If you want to learn some new skills in palmistry, pendulums, potion making or talisman making, I'm teaching workshops all weekend: shop.light
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Good morning! Say hello to my old man, Jeff! He's not ready to wake up yet.
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On the airplane I read an old book from the 30s called "Western Symbology" by Julia Seton. It was a book I found in an antique shop in Glastonbury and it was yellowed and the spine was loose, but it was full of all sorts of interesting insights on human b
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For a brief 17 hours we were back in Iceland. The best thing about this country might be the colors. Everything feels low and earthy and grounded. And everything looks fractal and haunting and timeless. We climbed down a rocky slope and wandered near the
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We walked down a long path to the edge of a muddy beach while the sun was setting. It hadn't gotten too cold yet and we stood and watched the colors of the sky change from pinks and purples to oranges and blues, and the foliage turned to silhouettes. We k
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London is old. So much older than anything I've seen before. We stepped carefully around 100 year old graves packed tightly into the overgrown rows at Highgate Cemetery. We were cautious and gave those at rest as much space as we could, but the earth had
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Glastonbury is an incredible place. Ruins, witches, antique bookshops and lots of history. We spent hours on the high street, meandering through tiny courtyards, finding little incense shops and paging through books from the 1800s. This is an image of "Th
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For the last six days I've been traveling around England, sleeping under the stars and wearing every piece of clothing I brought with me to stay warm during the chilly October nights. I'm lucky to be out here with great company, and I'm luckier still that
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This is me today. Goth slug in a field of dew. Just kidding but not kidding. Today was one of those days where I sat in one place for too many hours, had a headache and just barely finished a bunch of stuff I had on my list. I'm achey and tired and downed
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A couple years ago I had a wonderful friend named Oliver. He was an amazing cat, super cuddly, would stare you in the eyes as he sat on your chest. We had a telepathic link. I swear he was a little person stuck in a cat body. He was eerily perceptive and
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Happy anniversary, @teenwolfdude. Thanks for taking me to the renaissance festival and bringing me McDonalds at midnight, and for sticking around for 14 years. You are truly the best. - This is not a drawing of you, but I appreciate you letting me look a
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Wore my hair down today and felt like a greasy princess. . #inktober #inktober2016 #lindsaynohl #sketch
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Scratchboard flowers from this evening. I am reading an awesome book that's more like listening to someone's stream of consciousness than reading-- today the author was talking about his feelings on karma and I stopped and thought about the energy I put o
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Jeff!
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Today I sat in a hot spring for a long while on the edge of the ocean and I still haven't washed my hair. I'm sure there's no sense in doing it if I'm just going to have green-water hair tomorrow and so what... I feel more connected to the earth and the s
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I always consider rainbows "signs" that I'm supposed to be paying attention to what's happening at this moment. That I'm supposed to be present and that whatever is going on in that second will change me for the better. I saw this rainbow on the last even
