Mel 🫧

two bottles full of homemade citrus juice

🍊made some citrus juice before bedtime
(grapefruit, orange and tangerine)

gone are the days when I had time to ritualize my listening process 😭

sooo behind on new music. I fear I’ll just have to queue everything all at once

Pasta salad. Iingredients: stuffed tortellini pasta, broccoli, tomatoes, radish, red onions, and balsamic dressing (not pictured)

thinly sliced sweet potatoes (to be baked into chips)

Cucumber kimchi in a jar

Red juice in a glass pitcher. Ingredients: apples, beets, carrots, ginger, lemons, and pineapples

recently. fresh // homemade 🥒

trying new things requires so much grace (from self and others)

Quint Buchholz

ahhhh 🥹💕

Black and white photograph of the silhouette of a boat in a river with three fishermen on it. From the left side of the photo are the branches and leaves of a tree looming into the photo.

Black and white photograph of the black silhouettes of trees at the horizon, with branches of another tree looming into the photo from the upper right corner. The photo was taken against the cloudy sky, and there is a little bird flying downwards.

Vertical photograph of a scene in the forest with several canopy trees captured against the grey, foggy sky. The photo is very dark and the only lighter spots are from the sky peeking through the gaps between the branches.

Black and white double exposed photograph of a person swinging on a swing, hanging from a thick branch of a tree, with the water of a river in the background. The person is two times in the frame, which is caused by the double exposure. From the left side are the silhouettes of leaves looming into the photo.

- the black and white collection -

Breakfast: two waffles topped with strawberries, raspberries, and honest. On the side is more strawberry, raspberries, and grapefruit

Two stacks of old jazz vinyl records. On the top of the stacks are a Della Reese record and a Nina Simone record

Pink roses in the foreground, in the background is a mirror reflecting a woman’s body and a single red rose

Text in print (likely from a book) that reads “Loved! Loved! Loved! Loved! Loved!”

— it’s a sweet, simple life 🌹

seasoned green mangos (lime, salt, black pepper, cayenne pepper, and chilli powder)

late night mango picking

plastic bag full of plums (colors are red, green, and yellow)

plums of varying colors

p l u m s 🚥

Octavia Butler wrote this in her journal in 1988.
It wasn’t a wish — it was a plan.
Every line a spell. Almost all of it manifested.

(Writers, read this out loud. Then write your own.) ↓

foreground: two cups of mango spritzer with tajin on top. background: a jar containing mango puree

happy mango season to all who celebrate🥭

ft. mango spritzer w/ tajin

my saturn return is here. please send love & advice!

young bun beneath roses

black bunny

There are so many bunnies out

good morning ☀️

tinned fishing
#art

me and a roasted sweet potato (any variety) go together so damn bad 🙂‍↔️

reminder: the internet, as we use it, is lacking in context

so much of what is done here is not a chronological, linear, or self-contained experience

Produce (Korean sweet potato, onion, garlic, plantain, apples, etc) grouped together on a surface

yes, that was me you saw smelling produce today 🍠

following mostly

grapefruit and orange halves resting on a wooden cutting board

metal bowl with citrus juice inside

fresh squeezed citrus juice 🍊

happy Friday 🍏✨

happy Big Moon, friends

Image showing a box of chocolates and a big avocado

give thanks ☺️

my colleague brought me an avocado from their tree and I was just gifted a box of chocolates from a community org. I work with – what a stunning life ✨

Maintain your sanity, friends. Maintain your joy and peace while you continue to put your back into the work that needs doing.