Oh sky!!!! As I miss dancing in the rain and oh I’d sing, too, I raindance in my own way today & water the ground. Oh sky!!! Please cry & wet us as I’m so sad & watering & weeping myself. We miss you! I miss dancing in you!!! Am I watering these trees enough to make it through to winter & spring back? Arborists & horticulturalists say even a few gallons per perennial plant 🌱 is a help. To slake the parched trees, as many gallons as we have patience for, please let’s! Our friends are thirsty & it’s not enough but it is something to give them as much as we can! Drink!! 💧 Slake! Quench! Make mini-petrichor! #slake #dancingintherain #raindance #pleaserain #parched #water #trees #water #watering #loving #lovinglife #tolove #truelove #breathe #symbiosis #sweat #laboroflove #quench #quenchbotanics #petrichor #makingsanctuary #makesanctuary (at Bredesen Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkWl93KJA2H/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Thinking about cracks. About falling through them. Or knocking at their entrance and asking to enter. Or closing our eyes, swallowing our spit and jumping in to meet monsters. Thinking about where we might be disarticulated, and how we can touch this ‘genarative incapacitation’. How can we create porous membranes that allow us to embrace monsters, fall apart and be ‘deeply alchemically transformed’. Thinking that this is a way of sitting with complexity. And the discomfort of monstrous breath.

Thinking with Báyo Akómoláfé, making sanctuary, Foresta collective,

DINAH @makingsanctuary 

“The Big Long!” You & me! Us! What is The Big Long? Horticulturalists say end of September & beginning of October is the season to scatter native milkweed seeds. These packets are on donation basis at many hardware stores around our community! Or go to their website and order some! Scatter good for the long-run! Invest in the wild beauty around us! Belong! BeeLong! “The Big Long” belongs in this sense & not “The Big Short”, on Butterflies & Bees & Pollinators: BeeLong! #belong #milkweed #plantmilkweed #milkweedformonarchs #milkweedproject #naturalist #environment #pollinators #animalhusbandry #hopeforthefuture #socialartist #scatterseeds #impartation #impart #do #letsdothis #thebiglong #thebigshort #makingsanctuary #meditation #fieldofdreams #investlong #howtobeauty #investinthebest #pollinatorsofinstagram #pollinatormagnet #magnetism #curefordepression #spreadjoy #literally (at The Milkweed Group, LLC) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cip1GL4rrWF/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

In the light of day deep in the temperate forest under the gaze of my child where we feel at home on this ground giving forth worlds not yet adulterated & instead inhabited & appreciated. May all old growth forests remain & new forests become old growth forests some day! Gaze with love • relax • relaxed • temper • I love you dear child living in the temperate places & inviting me to wander with you. #gracestewart #stormstewart #stormstewartsmom #temperate #temperateforest #forest #relaxed #naturelovers #naturewalk #deepintheforest #makingsanctuary #meditate #becoming #wilding #wildingeducation #makingsanctuary #oldgrowth #oldgrowthforest #oldgrowthtrees #shelter #newgrowth #gaze #gazewithlove #gazewithwonder #wander #stewardship #wildernessculture #rewilding #moisture #deepbreath (at Cherry Creek Falls) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce6PAO2uEti/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

In the light of day deep in the temperate forest under the gaze of my child where we feel at home on this ground giving forth worlds not yet adulterated & instead inhabited & appreciated. May all old growth forests remain & new forests become old growth forests some day! Gaze with love • relax • relaxed • temper • I love you dear child living in the temperate places & inviting me to wander with you. #gracestewart #stormstewart #stormstewartsmom #temperate #temperateforest #forest #relaxed #naturelovers #naturewalk #deepintheforest #makingsanctuary #meditate #becoming #wilding #wildingeducation #makingsanctuary #oldgrowth #oldgrowthforest #oldgrowthtrees #shelter #shelterinplace #newgrowth #gaze #gazewithlove #gazewithwonder #wander #stewardship #wildernessculture #rewilding #moisture #deepbreath (at Cherry Creek Falls) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce6PAO2uEti/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Farmers Markets • Use all the colors in the crayon 🖍 box & then some. New possibilities smell so good. Life uses all the colors of the pallet, seeable & the unseeable. Flowers proof of good, that we belong here & that to be here is beautiful. Trust that, be that trust, draw ✍️ & paint 🎨 in that trust! #farmersmarket #millcityfarmersmarket #minneapolisfoodie #minnesotalife #minnesotafoodie #flowers #flowersofinstagram #belong #webelonghere #proof #proofofgood #bees #beesmaketheworldgoround #fullcolor #bouquet #bouquets #meditate #freshcut #makingsanctuary #awakening #awakensenses #newposibilites #allthecolors #useallthecolors #useallthecolorsinthecrayonbox #trust #paintyourlife #meditatedaily #mystery #smellsogood (at Mill City Farmers Market) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ces880uOob3/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Spotting a Spotted Towhee Appreciating our natural wonder about each other. #spottedtowhee #spotted #spotting #visitation #delight #species #underbrushbirds #underbrush #widespread #stable #travelphotography #hike #steapclimb #climb #quiet #quiettime #stillness #memory #naturephotography #getoutside #preserve #persevere #preservenature #makingsanctuary #makesanctuary #makesanctuaryreal #meditationpractice #meditationtime #harmony #harmonize (at Bishop Peak) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkDZE9gu_gG/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Pollen dusting. #pollen #beepollen #pollendust #dust #bees #savethebees #savethepollinators #gardeninspiration #wildflowergarden #wildflowergardens #backyardgarden #wildlifephotography #beefriendly #survival #plant #plan #wildernessculture #prowildlife #vibes #crosspollination #meditationpractice #makingsanctuary #makesanctuary #awarenessrocks #meditationrocks #solitarybees #honeybees #community #learnthroughnature #natural https://www.instagram.com/p/CiObzm-MX-s/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

The peak of summer! Each day dies glorious to love & live in the next, now July is almost over. 😳 I love being here being burned by the sun & its time with you into the spinining spiral of mysterious forever! #tolive #tolove #michaelangelo #quotes #summerquotes #sun #mementomori #carpediem #artofpoets #multimedia #meditation #méditation #emotionalintelligence #emotionalhealth #awareness #selfawareness #celebrate #livedeeply #depthpsychology #intothevoid #intothewild #wildmind #gratitude #thisismagic #magic #heaven #thisisheaven #heavenonearth #bringit #makingsanctuary https://www.instagram.com/p/CgiFWfyJ74m/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Water 💧 is life! Thank you Water 💦! Self to Poolside! #refresh #rejuvenate #recover #recreation #swim #poolside #alltomyself #water #waterislife #blessing #blessings #newday #meditationpractice #meditations #blue #bluewater #bluesky #atmosphere #condoliving #edinawest #makingsanctuary #solitude #solitudes #singularity #selflove #selfcare #selfawareness #refreshing #dothis #one https://www.instagram.com/p/CfTxQXnudUs/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

To wake early & climb! Get the best of the morning view & hear the birds with their morning song, have the morning peak experience & breathe deeply, wherever you are. Be in this flow every day to wake for the peak, curate your morning peak wherever you are, a new morning, & precious to know a whole level of good only revealed if awake for the rise over the horizon in your heart basking & in amazement of this phenomenon of a new day just for your eyes to behold, witness, see. Capture at Glacier National Park. Ooooooo!!! Happy Summer Solstice!!! Ooooooo to be magic & find magic🪄 #soltice #solsticesunrise #summersolstice #bemagic #glaciernationalpark #glacierpark #mountainclimbing #mountainclimber #mountainview #peak #peakexperience #wildlifephotography #wildingeducation #wilding #sunrise #sunrisephotography #phenomenal #rise #meditation #stability #strength #mountains #mamma #bigmamma #motherearth #stronglikeamountain #stable #stablelikeamountain #makingsanctuary https://www.instagram.com/p/CfEiKsbrU_v/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

All wrongs righted to the golden era of the collapse of dualities causing any enmity & instead a cause for celebration. This be a very Good Friday! #GoodFriday #passover #loveforever #nonduality #forgive #love #unborn #born #wisdom #truth #flourish #makingsanctuary #graphicart #graphicartists #blackmoon #blackmoonillustrator #illustrators #mobius #mobiusstrip #eternity #eternitysymbol #golden #goldenera #beauty #truthisbeauty #findthebeauty #becomewhatyoulove #collapseduality https://www.instagram.com/p/CcYPGf-Lwbh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd” Flannery O’Connor #writers #authors #americanauthors #deadpoetssociety #wiseblood #theviolentbearitaway #agoodmanishardtofindandotherstories #whattoread #bookclub #worththeread #ethics #race #religion #contemplation #artists #americanartists #truth #findingtruth #being #makingsanctuary #heartsanctuary #sanctuary #inner #toostrongfordepression #complexity #explorer #meditate #reading #literacy #fiction https://www.instagram.com/p/CcLUKDmLCzW/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Motions feel painted in every swish stroked. Am I the paintbrush? The painted? Surreal present breathing stroking a striking harmony. #winterwonderland #nordicskiing #backcountryskiing #cuttingtrails #cuttingnewpaths #winterphotography #wintersports #silentsports #swish #bridges #bridgesofinstagram #hiddenmoon #sunsetphotography #wintersunset #makingsanctuary #movement #dream #rhythmic #luciddreams #crossing #country #minnesotalife #surreal #minnesotawinter #winterhues #winterwetlands #dreambody #winterbreath #breath #wearehowwesee https://www.instagram.com/p/CZo8vYVLwbt/?utm_medium=tumblr

#harmony #receptivity #reception #noticing #power #powerofnoticing #notice #quotes #sanctuary #makingsanctuary #mindfulness #hidden #secret #secretgarden #secretgardenofthemind #gardenofthemind #hiddenfates #wisdom #brainwaves #flow #synchronicity #flowstate #hiddenharmony #intheflow #knowing #knowingishalfthebattle #trustyoursenses #find #iam #iameverywhere https://www.instagram.com/p/CNU1vrHnqd-/?igshid=1qh493280ll07