LMJ

You most assuredly did. 🙂

I ain’t even gon’ front, I had to use the good old context clues for this one. But yeah, this introvert agrees.

I can definitely relate. Mine was 11 years ago and I swear it still an emotional rollercoaster. Hope you are surrounded by all the things that bring you comfort and good-gobs of joy during this time of healing/recovery.

"Comparing ICE day-in and day-out to the Nazi Gestapo, the Secret Police, and slave patrols has consequences. The men and women of ICE and CBP are fathers and mothers, sons and daughters. They get up every morning to try and make our communities safer,” she continued.
🙄🙄🙄 Be 🤬 for real!!!

Wow, this came up quick! I remember us discussing this briefly some weeks ago. You’re looking good. How are you feeling physically and mentally? (As much as you care to share)

Thinking of you, garden friend.

🤭🤭🤭

When I’m not in my garden trying to restore my soul, I am listening to/reading a book to escape the daily BS. I finished “These Heathens” and I absolutely enjoyed listening to it.

Next up:

•Sky Full of Elephants
•Skye Falling

#blackbooksky

Several packets of seeds collected from my garden that are resting on the lap of my Black Raggedy Ann doll.

Dark Mystery Hibiscus still blooming

Pink Hardy Hibiscus still blooming.

Me holding a glass vase with Hardy Hibiscus stems that I rooted in water.

•Seeds from my garden
•Dark Mystery Hibiscus
•Hardy Hibiscus
•Hardy Hibiscus rooted in water

It is the perfect place to do so.
🙂

Working in the garden and sat for a bit to read Birds & Blooms.

Shasta Daisy

Panicle Hydrangea-Quick Fire

Panicle Hydrangea-Firelight

Zinnia bouquet in a glass vase with a couple of Cosmos.

•Shasta Daisy
•Quick Fire Hydrangea
•Firelight Hydrangea
•Zinnia Bouquet

Short-eared Owl

Behold!
🦉🦉🦉

Purple Balloon Flower

Chocolate Chip Ajuga

Gomphrena

Gomphrena

•Balloon Flower
•Chocolate Chip Ajuga
•Gomphrena
•Gomphrena

Pink Ice Plant Hosta

Verbena

Gomphrena

Elderberry Golden Tower newly planted

“In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.”

-Alice Walker

•Praying Mantis
A carnivore, mantids dine primarily on insects like flies, crickets, moths, grasshoppers, and mosquitoes. They can even feast on prey over three times their size, including small animals such as frogs, lizards, and—yes—even hummingbirds.
🌱🌱🌱
www.almanac.com/praying-mant...

“Southern whites love segregation like hogs love shit.”
-Doris Steele

#TheseHeathens is hella funny. If you were a parentified daughter and raised religious, you will definitely be able to relate to Doris, who can really “turn a phrase”.

#blackbooksky

Assorted colors of zinnias (yellow, coral, and salmon arranged in small glass vases sitting on a class table, with the yard behind it

The vases…
I need to figure out how to have an indoor flower garden in the winter.

Beautiful Fritillary

October invites us to slow down, let go, and trust the beauty in change. Here’s to finding peace in space in between the endings and beginnings.

Dill

Yellow Calendula

Radish 🫜

Orange Calendula

"Loving ourselves and each other deepens our disruption of the dominant systems. They want us unwell, fearful, exhausted, and without deep self-love, because you are easier to manipulate when you are distracted by what is not real or true." —Tricia Hersey

Coral hibiscus flower

Cream colored okra flower

A bunch of red ghost peppers

Colander full of various tomatoes and peppers

It might be Fall but the garden isn’t ready to let go of Summer quite yet.

Photo of a Stella D’Oro flower from my garden zoomed in.

10/1
“May your day, week, month be as beautiful as you are.
As lovely as you are.
As kind as you are.”

-Ancestor Said, Ehime Ora
#blackbooksky

Good morning 🫶🏾

These Heathens by Mia McKenzie | BGC Book Club YouTube video by Brown Girl Collective

www.youtube.com/live/s0VZDYg...

These Heathens audiobook by Mia McKenzie and read by Bahni Turpin

Screenshot taken from YouTube of upcoming discussion of These Heathens with the author, Mia McKenzie being hosted by Brown Girl Collective on October 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM.

My current audiobook:

#TheseHeathens finally became available in my library system. I am looking forward to listening to this book being read by one of my favorite narrators, Bahni Turpin.

#blackbooksky

🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾
You’re welcome, friend.

Okra

Hibiscus

Hibiscus

Echinacea with bees pollinating it.

•Okra
•Hibiscus
•Hibiscus
•Echinacea

“We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.”
— Gwendolyn Brooks 🌱

Birds & Blooms magazine with an owl on the front cover.

🦉🦉🦉
It’s on my list.

A magenta dahlia covered in what’s left of the rain

A magenta dahlia covered in what’s left of the rain

A flower for you…