01/25/2026
Recently while making a gift for someone special, I found myself thinking about texture 🤍
I’ve always felt deeply soothed around wood — wooden floors beneath bare feet 👣, woody plants animating a living room or bathroom 🌿, the soft surface of a well-loved kitchen table. There’s something comforting in its warmth, in the beauty of its grain. This particular piece was redwood — and simply touching it brought a sense of ease and reverence 🌲✨
It reminded me how profoundly we are affected by the things around us. The three-dimensional world we move through every day — what we see 👀, touch ✋, and live with — shapes our psyche, our nervous system, and our sense of well-being 🧠💛
Some of us need rounded, soft shapes to feel held 🤲�Others thrive in clean lines and sharper edges...
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What about you?�What textures do you like to wear 👕?�What materials help you feel calm, inspired, or grounded in your space 🏡?
This year, I feel especially curious about attuning my awareness to this 🌱...
If we lived more fully outdoors, how much more sensitive would we be to these nuances? A plant can soothe or irritate the skin 🌿🩹. The scent of one tree can calm the breath, another can awaken the senses 🌬🌲. Shelter matters — wood versus stone, foliage versus open sky 🪵🪨☁️.
Even sound changes everything 🔔
Time in nature teaches us to pay attention again 🍃
Today, I’m feeling grateful for the chance to work with metal (the tool) 🔨, fire (the way) 🔥, and wood (the material) 🌳. For the smoke rising like a small campfire in my hands 🌫✨. For the respect I felt toward the heat that could have burned me, and for the sap emerging from the wood — once a living part of a tree I hugged years ago 🤍🌲
A reminder of cycles 🔄�Of transformation ✨�Of making something new from something that has lived before 🌕This, to me, is balance ⚖️�This is feng shui 🏡🌿
And for the record — I love glass for windows and drinking vessels 🪟🥛…�a kitchen table? Not so much 😌�How do you feel?
