i am drawn to minimalism in part because the world sometimes overwhelms me. too much noise, too much choice, too many people, too many errands, too many emails, too many invitations, too many deadlines. i just want to go home to my white walls and my green yard, and my blue lake, and i want to take a long breath, sitting next to my husband with the kids nearby. sometimes i turn to STILL blog as a relief from all of that, but this particular july, at the height of the finest growing season this area has seen in living memory, even the choices out there in the woods are overwhelming. so today i responded by going through my collection of dried plants, and made a kind of order in a messy little corner of my work table. it’s all good.

saint paul, minnesota