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APRIL
— the word itself is verdant somehow. It is really clean water and tight buds and huge flowers and that tender tender tender green <333
april green is the color of my brain right now
After spending so many of last year’s green months on my parent’s couch, I’m Starving for it. My treatments for a broken foot ranged from doctor’s orders (do nothing, literally) to the frankly esoteric and I’ve emerged .. mostly the same person .. but the same person who now owns a vehicle! aka I am now a new yorker who leaves new york whenever she pleases which makes me Really Happy. If you wonder why I live in new york city when I love the forest so much it is because I love people watching and events and languages and the hyper-intellectual and excellent croissants and squeezing people into my studio apartment but also peace and solitude and LAKES and veggie stands and to be left completely alone. I want it all - haven’t you ever been with a woman?
If you are interested in going to the woods, marshes, fields, dunes, other landscape of your choice with ME please let me know because I usually don’t invite anyone on my forays but it struck me on my weird meander through a random bird sanctuary island I was driving past yesterday that maybe a friend wants to ~come with~ on my somewhat-planned-but-open-to-interpretation strolls.
Weekends are cool but ~Wednesdays Are Cooler~ — and so are the benefits of self-employment, namely control over my time. I like to wake up early. I like to cross the Manhattan Bridge and drive north on the FDR. I like to eat a healthy lunch on a nice rock. I like to name plants and overthink the details of my life and carry a knife and gossip and take photographs and notes. I love to get dinner. Let me know if you want to come :) lest we forget that summer is very fun but it is also a ridiculously hot swamp — point being, spring is the best time in the woods.
(also on my walk yesterday I was thinking about how I really would like to study botany more - in a way that includes a teacher and maybe even homework, which in my 20+ years of formal education, I’ve always been great at and might actually .. miss? if you know about a local not-online class ideally involving a field and not (exclusively) about herbalism because I’ve done a lot of that already .. would love to know!)
As far as the experience itself: for years now I’ve been EASILY resisting the masculine urge to conquer mountain tops. I love a view as much as the next guy but the summit doesn’t get me off like the trail there. Walking kind of slowly, seeing a giant tree hug a giant boulder, tasting pine needles, watching a woodpecker peck, correctly identifying a species.. come ON 🥵 — haven’t you ever been with a woman?
xo
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