smallsmallbeauties
Small Small Beauties
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smallsmallbeauties · 4 years ago
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Lockdown Love
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smallsmallbeauties · 4 years ago
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Mushrooms and a magical time.
Juan de Fuca, British Columbia, 2011
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smallsmallbeauties · 4 years ago
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Our first visit to the Atlantic. 
somewhere near Corner Brook, NL, 2014
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smallsmallbeauties · 4 years ago
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San Pancho, Mexico, 2019
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smallsmallbeauties · 4 years ago
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The farm near Napanee, 2012
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smallsmallbeauties · 4 years ago
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Small Kindnesses
I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs to let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you” when someone sneezes, a leftover from the Bubonic plague. “Don’t die,” we are saying. And sometimes, when you spill lemons from your grocery bag, someone else will help you pick them up. Mostly, we don’t want to harm each other. We want to be handed our cup of coffee hot, and to say thank you to the person handing it. To smile at them and for them to smile back. For the waitress to call us honey when she sets down the bowl of clam chowder, and for the driver in the red pick-up truck to let us pass. We have so little of each other, now. So far from tribe and fire. Only these brief moments of exchange. What if they are the true dwelling of the holy, these fleeting temples we make together when we say, “Here, have my seat,” “Go ahead — you first,” “I like your hat.”
Danusha Laméris
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smallsmallbeauties · 4 years ago
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Questions to ask yourself before giving up:
Are you hydrated? When did you last glut your thirst with a handful of spring?
Have you eaten anything besides emails or your fingernails in the last three hours? Have you pulled the protein out of an oak tree or palmed an avocado pit this month? Are your forlorn probiotics
languishing on your butter shelf? Are you dressed? If so, does your skirt strike matches alight as you walk by? Can you melt it a little around your waist and ribcage? Are you resisting
a dream? Wrestling a dreamless night? Let yourself take a bath in your bed clothes for fifteen minutes, no pressure to fall asleep. But make sure to turn off all your beehives first. At least take them out of your bedroom.
Have you uncoiled the ropes of your legs and strung them along the length of the city today? Have you let a lake or a snow bank sketch silent letters on your back? When did you last give away
your unworn clothes, your well-fitting metaphors? Tell a neighbour or a person across the coffee shop counter how well they catch the light.
Have you snugged into a seedpod in the past couple days? Do you need a massage? Complete something
smaller than a lichen: return a library book, or a letter, or a look, or a relationship you regret. Sew a button on that’s come loose. Crack a window. Crack an egg.
Do you feel unattractive? Rub your skin with smooth stones or strong magnets. Wear sunglasses. Take your reflection in on the surface of a puddle.
Give yourself ten minutes. Give yourself ten years. Give yourself an orgasm. Give yourself a change of seasons. Give yourself a new lover. Give yourself a to-do list written with sidewalk chalk and hopscotch across it.
Have you been working really hard shovelling all the sidewalks of your friendships? Remember it takes time to recover from exertion, especially when you are a seedling.
Know that your friends want to send help. They want to send daffodils and their extra hands to braid your hair. They all want to be deciduous trees and long semi-coloned sentences for you. They want to.
Remember: you are a comma, one beloved earring, a house circled on a traveller’s map, sometimes misplaced, but never an imposition.
Everyone feels like a hallway at some point or another. But you are a room that people enter to stay.
by Kaitlyn Boulding
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smallsmallbeauties · 4 years ago
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Because the heart dwells in unattended dark, we often forget its sensitivity to everything that is happening to us. Without our ever noticing, the heart absorbs the joy of things and also their pain and care. Within us, therefore, a burdening can accrue. For this reason it is wise now and again to tune in to your heart and listen for what it carries. Sometimes the simplest things affect unexpected transformation. The old people here used to say that a burden shared is a burden halved. Similarly, when you allow your heart to speak, the burdens it carries diminish, a new lightness enters your body, and relief floods the heart. John O’Donohue
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smallsmallbeauties · 5 years ago
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Parkdale, Toronto, 2019
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smallsmallbeauties · 5 years ago
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New Beginnings. 
Toronto, ON. 2020
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smallsmallbeauties · 6 years ago
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Vega. 
Victoria, B.C. 2018
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smallsmallbeauties · 9 years ago
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Corner Brook, Newfoundland, 2015
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smallsmallbeauties · 10 years ago
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Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in.
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smallsmallbeauties · 10 years ago
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Bandiagara, Mali. 2009. 
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smallsmallbeauties · 10 years ago
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Ottawa, Ontario. 2008. 
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smallsmallbeauties · 10 years ago
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outside Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. 2009.
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smallsmallbeauties · 10 years ago
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Tortoise Lake, Ontario. 2014
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