Celia is starting to show color, finally. This strong survivor was a weed in some live moss, she looked like a tequila sunrise. I knocked her crown off when transplanting after her first year, then I had a bunch of lights break, then there was damage from high minerals in the substrate, then the hospital stay where she dried up and sat in the dark for a couple of weeks. It's been so long since she has blushed peachy tones, I was starting to wonder if it would ever happen again.
#gardening

Yaaay, I have to practice being around people more (strangers trigger my dystonia, and I will need to pass a job interview without having wild contortions soon) and I found a knitting circle that meets right at the library down the street, close enough to walk!

Dusted off another of my old favorites, a story inspired by the King of Pentacles, reversed, using the Zombie Tarot deck. I love that deck for urban fantasy and horror type stories so hard.

517 words.
https://tippitiwichet.com/2023/09/11/regret/

#horror #flashfiction #writing #fiction #tarot

I have a worm bin I don't use because of frequent road trips, but my little indoor garden is designed to be portable, and I just realized I can have a tiny bin in a little plastic shoebox. Fingers crossed a pet store somewhere has red wrigglers for feeders :).

I was doing the kind of gardening that uses tiny brushes, tweezers, and an X-acto knife while doing mindfulness exercises concerning self-compassion, and having a lovely time. Then, it popped into my head that I once joked about what it would do to my psyche if I started meditating on my carnivorous plants, given their seductive and predatory nature. I guess I’m about to find out. Anyway, Scarlet Belle and the tippitiwichets had a spa day.

#carnivorousPlants #coping #gardening