Different Days

Love this and FYI my sons love UPROOTED so much I have gifted it to my nieces and nephew!

Lovely. I worked in the same office for 20 years and for about 8 of those I took the same walk along a nearby trail at lunch. One day I started taking pictures of the same patch of trees and posting them to my instagram as #thatoneplaceatwork. It was amazing seeing the snow levels, leaves change, spring return, the loss of 2 trees in a storm, and how the rain changed how high the grass grew every year. I love that little spot. A couple local artists even happened upon my posts and one painted me a watercolor of the spot. It made me appriciate all those paintings Monet did of the church. New spots are great but the intimacy of the same place is magical too.

I love this! How lucky are people who live close to the sea! I’m lucky/privileged enough to live 2h to the ocean near Bordeaux, France, and what I prefer is when it’s the perfect kind of waves, the ones that will take off your feet gently from the ground and land you back again, and with fresh water that will slap your face with the right amount of firmness and softness. Nothing else to get back in my body and in the present.

Everything about this is ❤️

I have revisited Ruth’s ivf comic so many times throughout my ivf journey. I have an embryo transfer tomorrow and seeing this reminder of someone who made it through the process successfully set me at ease. Thank you for that, and the lovely reminder to be present.

❤️

Love love love. I have lived by the sea all my life, I love all its states and I couldn’t be away. Funny how landscapes can get in to your bones. That’s the human condition I guess. A moving post.

Love this so much! Milky haze!!! Corduroy!! What incredible descriptors of what you’re seeing. As someone landlocked at the moment – it’s heaven experiencing what you’re seeing. Thanks for sharing.

The ocean has a “You’re back! What shall we?!” air of perpetual partnership that makes me feel thankful to be an Earthling, however frustrating and heartbreaking that can be.

I love this! Thank you!

I clicked on the link to Ruth’s beauty uniform (so many great tips!) and from there to the honey washing technique on Kale & Caramel that someone in the comments mentioned and I am now down a rabbit hole of natural beauty recipes. Browsing on CoJ is like going on a road trip without a route map.

The Milky Haze painting is so dreamy!

Such a simple concept presented so tenderly. Thank you.

I adore Ruth. Thanks for this!

Love how this reaches the heart! Thank you Ruth

Ahhh… I used to live on the California coast and I miss my beach walks. Ruth is spot on! But I’m reminded that every walk we take, wherever we take it, holds the magic of change and new discoveries. And if we take the same route everyday and find that we’ve stopped really seeing what’s in front of us, all we have to do is follow the course in the reverse direction. (Or bring along a child, as children’s senses seem to stay awake longer than ours.)

This is so beautiful. “Some days it’s corduroys” <3

I live in Chicago near Lake Michigan and am always in awe of how different the lake is every day! Love this reminder of how different every day of life is too and how that’s a beautiful thing (even on murky days).

I live at the Jersey shore, and like to pop down to the beach in early morning to paint quick watercolor seascapes. After two years of this practice, I’ve probably painted it 40 times? You wouldn’t believe how wildly different the sea, sky, and sand look from day to day (yes, even with our murky Jersey shore water!). I’ve hung a gallery wall of 16 of my favorites, and guests are drawn to it like a magnet. Ruth’s illustrations resonate so much

This is so moving and perfect for right now. Thank you!

That was such a fine and tender story, Ruth, thank you :) PS: I wish everyone dolphins.

Love thisss!

Oh! I just took a deep breath. thank you!!