Day 30: Solitude 📷
Day 29: Winding 📷
Day 28: Ephemeral 📷
Breaking in some new Sakura markers.
Day 27: Collective 📷 Mere seconds before running my first marathon in Victoria, BC.
New Shoes, Same Treadmill #4
Stuff I’m doing 👨🏻💻 I’m trying very hard to keep it all together. At any moment I could lose my shit. This is a result of the universe having a way of throwing you a ton of bullshit all at once. The latest was our basement flooding due to a monumental fuck ton of rain last weekend. We’ve ripped out carpet, moved furniture and vacuumed us as much water as we can.
Day 26: Bridge 📷
Day 25: Decay 📷
Day 24: Bloom 📷
Just finished “In Limbo” by Deb JJ Lee. I’ve been a fan of their illustrations for years now and the book is beautiful.
There’s a lot here. It’s about adolescence, abuse, mental illness, and struggling to find your place in this world. Highly recommended.
I Journal
I’m one of those weirdos that likes to journal. It’s like talking to yourself in print form. Which is good because talking yourself verbally makes you look insane. I hadn’t realized just how long I’ve been journalling for. I started in 2011! I was still in my first marriage and was working as a Manager for Apple Retail. It feels like a lifetime ago (I’m old). My Journalling Workflow I’ve tried using paper and pen/pencil numerous times but I keep coming back to digital.
day 23: Fracture 📷
I had a hard time finding a photo for this one. Do mountains count as a fracture? 🤔
Day 22: Hometown 📷
Photo challenge day 21: Silhouette 📷
My partner and I have been working on this business since last year but somehow having something physical makes it feel more real. This is my personal space on the internet so I won’t be promoting my work here. If you’re interested to see what it is I do you can find me here: findcommonground.ca
Photo challenge day 20: Gather 📷
New Shoes, Same Treadmill #3
Stuff I’m doing 👨🏻💻 I’ve been taking care of administrative shit related to my new business. When you work in the field of mental health and wellbeing you typically have to register for all kinds of stuff. That means fees, lots and lots of fees. On to the cool stuff I’ve read this week. Stuff I’ve read 👨🏻💻📚 💉🎨✨Why Is Everyone Getting Their Tattoos Removed? The worst part of getting a tattoo removed, apart from the searing pain and the two-year commitment, is the sound the laser makes as it hits your skin: a violent, unnatural popping and crackling that could soundtrack an animated video of someone being electrocuted.
Photo challenge day 19: Equal 📷
📷 Day 18: Texture
Another Piece of Content (Kill Me)
Content: I fucking hate that word. My skin crawls every time I hear an influencer, tech exec, or web 3 grifter use it in a video, blog post, or Instagram Story. If I run into someone and we inevitably start asking what we do for a living and the person answers; “I make internet content”, I automatically know how they think about their work. What they “create” is nothing more than chum to feed the algorithm so they get views, clicks, whatever.