I started this substack over a year ago and only just hit my stride this summer with the kind of content I wanted to share—mostly a diary of my Fibershed experience and a peek behind the making of my One Year One Outfit.
But last week, I had to move from my quiet little cottage on the farm to a place with shared walls and no claim to outdoor space. I’m struggling with this because the bulk of what inspires me is outside. And while I have access to a beautiful towpath to take Willie on her walks…it’s just not the same as having a garden and a barn and the luxurious solitude of fields and forest.
I’m trying to cushion this realization with the fact that winter is coming, and I wouldn’t be outside anyway…but it’s still pretty disheartening. But in my efforts to cling onto any shred of inspiration left at this moment, I made a “mood board” of sorts, of the pieces I want to work on this winter (and a peek at the kind of stuff you might see here on wild reed).
I wrote this in my diary the last time I went through a stressful change:
Nothing is new after a time or two.
It’s silly and simple, but true. Soon this apartment in this town will be my comfort zone.
I love this so much. I'm facing the possibility of a career shift and I think "oh I don't want to end up working at a gas station" or something like that. But I would if I had to and I would eventually find my ways to romanticize it and make it cozy. We make the places we are.