04/22/2026
Happy Earth Day friends 🤍
In these times, it feels more important than ever to find moments of joy and beauty while also tending to our collective grief and the very real experience of eco-grief as we live through collapse and change—there is no bypassing that reality—but one of the quiet miracles of nature is its persistence. Despite everything, the jasmine still blooms, the bees are still buzzing, and butterflies still make their long journey to Mexico, life continuing to move, grow, and flower even as we witness instability and record temperatures. Living in New Orleans, keeps me close to that truth, where spring opens the city into festival season and we gather outdoors to listen to music at Jazz Fest, eat crawfish, and sit beneath trees, remembering that community and being on the land - are grounding and necessary forms of care.
Having a child has deepened this even more, as I’m constantly pulled back into wonder through her eyes, watching her experience jasmine or magnolia for the first time, noticing how she doesn’t carry the fear we do but instead meets the world as alive, beautiful, and worth exploring, which reminds me that wonder is still available; seeing nature through her softens something in me and brings me back into curiosity, play, and presence, and it is said that curiosity itself might be an antidote to fear, because when you stay curious, you keep noticing, and when you keep noticing, you begin to see all the ways life is still moving, still blooming, still becoming - the flowers still open, the air still carries scent, the Earth continues its quiet, intricate work - and maybe this is part of what it means to be here now: to hold many truths at once, the intensity of being alive and the magical wonder of the Earth, letting yourself feel it all fully, without rushing past any of it.
Enjoy this collection of delightful, silly, childlike, and oh-so-juicy words. It has brought me joy, and I hope it does the same for you 🌿
xo, Kathleen
