My kitchen sink is a disaster in the best way. I've baked about 200 cookies this past week with friends and family. My favorites have been Coconut Drops and Rosemary Shortbread from the Sister Pie cookbook. I've also gotten hooked on knitting recently! So far I've made a beanie and a very big scarf. All that to say, I've been wintering correctly this year.

It's very on-brand of me to drift toward female artists who create whimsical botanical works. Lately I've been admiring Rosie Harbottle (same name!) and Anna Zemánková a lot. I also really enjoyed this talk from Anna Mills on her plant-inspired ampersands. And of course, we all know and love Georgia O'keffe. I stumbled across photos of her living space and boy, a home like that's the dream, isn't it?

This article on Queer Ecology was a really interesting (and important) read.

I've been getting very into jazz this season. It started with a fascination with Alice Coltrane that bled out from there into Pharaoh Sanders, Sun Ra, Dorothy Ashby, and more. I've started putting together a couple playlists of what I've been enjoying here and here.

I know I should've watched The Jerk sooner, but I didn't see it until this year. Oops! Either way, this scene of Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters serenading one another is my exact flavor of romance. I think about this scene a lot.

On a podcast I recently heard someone say, "Let the people you love become who they are in front of you." These are good words for me to chew on as we get ready to enter into 2025. Quite frankly, it feels like a lot of transformation is happening within myself and the people I love right now. It can be scary because it feels unfamiliar—and thus, disorienting—however I'm choosing to believe it is all working out for an ultimate Good.

Happy holidays, all.

xo