I hate those books and their trite advice, but I am always a mess and sad and I need someone to tell me what to do so that I can be better and normal and happy.
Then The Private World of Tasha Tudor came to me in the mail one day. It turns out I had ordered it by accident. There was not a lot of Tasha Tudor in Coney Island I guess, because I had never heard of her.
She was amazing. She believed that she had lived in the 1830s and that she would return there after death. When she was a child she made her own clothing, without a pattern, and it turned out that the clothes she was creating were from that period!
I feel like she might be teaching me something about living intentionally, which sound self-helpish, but makes sense to me.
One quote of her's has become a bit of a mantra for me:
"When I'm working in the barn or house I often think of all the errors I've made in my life. But then I quickly put that behind me and think of waterlilies. They will always eradicate unpleasant thoughts. Or goslings are equally comforting in their own way."
What about the goslings? Think of the goslings. I say to myself when I find myself leaning into a dark place. Oddly enough it has been helping.
Here's today's granny:
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