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incognito-princess · 10 months

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I yogaed too hard yesterday and strained my right side of my neck and back. So I just meditated today and I'll go to the gym and walk it off on the treadmill. Then I'll get a massage in the massage chair. It's times like this I wish Colorado Springs actually had hot springs... or any springs of any kind, whatsoever.

#technically there's one on #The Rock Ledge Ranch #in #Garden of the Gods #and there used to be one in #Monument Valley park #but they filled in #Manitou Springs #has effervescent springs you can drink from #but no hot springs in my immediate vacinity

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thomaswaynewolf · 6 months

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#Highway 163 #monument valley #monument valley Navajo tribal park #wild horses #adventure #travel #my photo #southwest #desert #utah #photography #aesthetic #nature #scenery #landscape

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fatchance · 2 months

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Posts have been very infrequent, but I'm extending my break a little longer for a roadtrip north to Tsé Biiʼ Ndzisgaii. Fresh photos will resume when I return.

#vintage postcard #Americana #Tsé Biiʼ Ndzisgaii #Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park #Navajo Nation #Arizona #away message

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rabbitcruiser · 9 months

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Clouds (No. 1035)

Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park

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pangeen · 1 year

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“ Monument morning “ // Ryan Cantyloupe

#Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park #Arizona #United States #nature #landscape #desert #Sunrise #aesthetics #wanderlust #explore #follow #discover

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sennetrip · 6 months

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Monument Valley ✨

#artists on tumblr #illustration #radarplz #monument valley #navajo nation #sunset #sunrise #arizona #utah #national park

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cookinguptales · 6 months

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When I was younger... I think saying that Ratatatouille was a hyperfixation of mine is too strong, but I will say that it's a movie that came out at just the right time for me personally.

I was going through one of the toughest times in my life in that period, and I was just getting to the age where I could understand that the things happening to me were not right. I was coming to question the worldview that I'd been raised with, and I was starting to understand that many things in my life would be better qualified as abuse. That paired with some other things led to me feeling extremely jaded.

And... I think it would've been really easy for me to become irreparably cynical at that age. I was feeling so disillusioned with so much of my life that it was hard to believe in anything anymore. But then Ratatouille came out and I really resonated with the basic message that sometimes love requires courage, and that the simple act of creation (and finding joy from that creation) could be incredibly meaningful. That cynicism is both easy and enjoyable, but that finding joy, finding meaning, can only happen if you make the conscious decision to reject it.

idk. I think I just really, really needed to hear that at that age.

Since I was very young, I'd actually wanted to be a chef when I grew up. I think... by that age, I was realizing that it wasn't going to happen. I was just so, so sick, and I only got my first diagnosis less than a year after the movie came out. So at the time, I didn't know what was wrong with me, but I knew that I was simply too sick to cook -- and that cooking school, for the most part, was not very accessible if you have mobility disabilities.

But... I wanted to cook this one thing. Just this one thing. I remember it took me hours. Like literally hours -- just for the prep work. We were pretty poor back then and I wasn't going to ask my parents to get a specialty product for the kitchen just so I could cook one dish, so I ended up creating it without a mandoline. I cut all the vegetables by hand.

I was exhausted by the time I was done (and did have a moment of "you idiot, you hate both eggplant and bell peppers, why are you making this?") but there was a real sense of accomplishment there. And I did like it a lot more than traditional ratatouille.

(My issues with eggplant are textural, so cutting it thinly and stacking it with zucchini, one of my favorite foods, helped alleviate that for me. lmao)

I never made it again, though, and these days I cook very little. I'm still sick. I always will be. So... there's still a very specific pain that I feel when I watch that film and they say, "Anyone can cook."

But it's also something that I tell myself the few times that I do cook. When I jerry-rig an accessible cook station in my living room. When I discover ways to make things doable, if not easy. Anyone can cook. Maybe not always, maybe not anything, maybe not the way everyone else does it. Certainly not in a professional kitchen.

But... anyone can cook.

And... truthfully speaking, I had a real breakdown a couple years after this movie came out. I learned in the most brutal fashion possible that my body would not be like everyone else's, no matter how hard I pushed it, and during the forced medical leave that followed, I finally came to some very tough realizations about my life and the adults around me who had failed me. Even, y'know, the ones I loved.

I do think having that kernel of hope, though, and that stubborn refusal to entirely give into cynicism, did help me survive the period. I really tried to throw myself into anything that could give me the barest amount of joy back then rather than being entirely pulled under by the uh. Incredible amount of depression I was dealing with.

I'm not gonna say that Ratatouille saved my life; I think that would be a bit too much. But it certainly didn't hurt. I went through this period in my life where I really kept imprinting on unrepentantly hopeful, optimistic characters that truly believed in the best in people, even when it hurt them. And... I think there were some mirrors there in my own life. I so desperately wanted to believe that things could be good. That the people in my life would be good. And it very much did hurt me.

But... I think I needed all that, too. I don't believe that the world is all Disney optimism or anything, but I think that... y'know, what's the point of anything if you give into despair? Living and continuing to live and eking out joy wherever you find it is a very conscious decision, and one that you have to constantly make. You learn to mine through the shit to find just one thing that makes you remember that life can be very beautiful.

Some days that's a fandom. Some days that's a person. Some days that's confit byaldi. idk, man. Sometimes you have to cut through the calluses that life has given you and just experience something with childlike wonder and hope. That's the real message there, I think. That you have to have the courage to allow yourself to feel joy, even in the smallest ways, when things suck.

Love isn't always rewarded, but... you gotta keep letting yourself feel it, right? It really is all there is.

#personal post #ratatouille #tbh I feel like what heals me most when I'm feeling awful has been nature #I think the trips I've been taking with my father to see national parks have been really healing #and I'm glad that I have the chance to go out to northern california and be with the redwoods at least once a year #those trees make me feel so human lmao #I remember when dad and I were in monument valley -- not actually a national park #we drove out to this relatively secluded area #and there was no one there #and there was just this... perfect silence #like such a perfect stillness that I cried #ofc then dad was like 'wow do you hear how quiet it is...' rip but

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ironwilledf-up · 1 month

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Doing a road trip from Vegas to all the Utah national parks and multiple state parks and national monuments next month. Anyone got any tips or any places I should check out? I probably have most of the open spaces saved but lesser known places are good to know and even more so I'll take some food recommendations or just general tips :)

We are renting a jeep so dirt roads are fine ❤️