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Surgery on my 2021 #HobonichiWeeks Mega. I have fa

Surgery on my 2021 #HobonichiWeeks Mega. I have fallen in love with the #HobonichiCousin, so I had to decide what to do with this lovely thing. Turns out, it was pretty easy to carefully snip binding threads and extract the calendar/structured planning pages from this, throw some tape over the exposed spine, and turn this into a blank journal. 😍

2nd shot complete. 👍🏻

2nd shot complete. 👍🏻

Find lovely humans who will send you wonderful sna

A reset. It looks like a simple planner switch (to

A reset. It looks like a simple planner switch (to a #HobonichiCousin for those interested), but it holds multiple meanings for me. I’m reminding myself that I’m allowed to change my mind about what works for me at any time. I’m allowed to spread out a little on a page, use bolder nib pens, use something with a full page for each day even if I don’t put a single thing on some of those pages. I can let go of the smaller planner that was loved until it wasn’t... a smaller planner that eventually collected dust while I resented its portability during mostly home-locked months where none of my shit needed to portable. I love that @hobonichi1101 has an April start planner option that fits perfectly into this year’s cycle of “I need a change.”

I also want to do a reset with online spaces. Instagram is such an annoying space to try and navigate in terms of boundaries. If there was a close friends filter for posts rather than just for stories, I’d likely just build a careful setup for all my shit to be in one place, but nope. I’m tired of having professional, public, and ultra private spaces as separate entities here when other platforms have had some kind of handle on wearing multiple hats for years. Preparing for some type of consolidation when that feels clearer.

How are you? If you’re a paper scribbler, what are you scribbling in these days and what are you scribbling with?

It’s Trans Day of Visibility. My name is Brandic

It’s Trans Day of Visibility. My name is Brandice (or Bran), I’m non-binary, genderqueer, my pronouns are they/them. If you’re trans, please know that you owe no one your visibility on any day, including this one. You are valid, loved, and supported just as you are. 🏳️‍⚧️♥️

I’m tapped and resting. Back later. Places I can

I’m tapped and resting. Back later. Places I can still be found: sporadic checking of DMs here, texting, Discord, pretty much anywhere EXCEPT Facebook (still have Messenger installed) and the private IG account. Archived past content while this space decides what it wants to be.

The light returns. Promise.

The light returns. Promise.

❄️ Snowy day. ❄️

❄️ Snowy day. ❄️

We’re besties. ♥️

We’re besties. ♥️

I know I may be alone in it, but I’m hoping for

I know I may be alone in it, but I’m hoping for more of this in the upcoming week. ❄️

2021 Hobonichi Weeks Mega. Starts in December and

2021 Hobonichi Weeks Mega. Starts in December and I’m happily leaping into new pages. 🖊

Prickle pig foot baths. 🦔

Prickle pig foot baths. 🦔

Scene of much writing this week. #nanowrimo

Scene of much writing this week. #nanowrimo

Tending spaces.🍂 Holding space.🍁 Deck: Port

Tending spaces.🍂
Holding space.🍁

Deck: Portable Fortitude by @corinadross

Baxter is a trooper about prickly new houseguests.

Baxter is a trooper about prickly new houseguests. I just don’t have the premium content to put here right now. Prepping for #Nanowrimo during a pandemic while the election looms. Bracing for the energetic barrage that has already started and will only increase indefinitely. Wondering if the time I’ve scheduled off of work should also include the sometimes exhausting work of existing in places like this one. Letting my internal barometer tell me day by day. How are you weathering the world as it is in this moment?

💤 Palm naps. 🦔

Iroh is here. 🦔♥️😊

Iroh is here. 🦔♥️😊

Soon. He’s ready. 🦔

Soon. He’s ready. 🦔

Meet little Iroh. These are baby pictures of a new

Meet little Iroh. These are baby pictures of a new, soon-to-arrive member of our household. He isn’t quite ready yet, but he’s getting bigger every day. 🦔 Pepper (our first hedgie) has been gone since very early this year and it felt like a good time (while we’re home all day) to bring new quills into the family. Stay tuned for new animal love. ♥️🦔🍂

My second month of the @dollarteaclub (thanks @nes

My second month of the @dollarteaclub (thanks @nessamarie94!) is here! Putting some local honey in the pumpkin flavor and sipping #tea on this rainy afternoon. ☕️🍂🎃

Coming out day. Hi. I’ve already done it so many

Coming out day. Hi. I’ve already done it so many times but hey there, my name is Brandice (or Bran). I’m queer, non-binary, and my pronouns are they/them. If this day feels complex for you, whether you’re in or out, I see you. ♥️

Day whatever-I-want of #listwatch30: What’s on m

Day whatever-I-want of #listwatch30: What’s on my current altar. This is just one of them, but it’s my current autumn altar and I’m pretty in love with it, knowing where each petal, acorn, and hidden pebble traveled from. What’s on your altar? How is it a different space in 2020? I find that mine is better tended because I’m so much more tied to this space in which it lives.

Massive goodies arrived today and I did an unbox/r

Massive goodies arrived today and I did an unbox/reveal on the blog. (Link in bio, etc.) 2021 is likely to be a continued dumpster fire but I’ll have a great planner for the unplannable.

Last night, I had soft serve for the first time in

Last night, I had soft serve for the first time in ages and it was amazing, AND no food reaction almost 24 hours later. Grateful for discovering @almostheavenicecream and their dairy free coconut milk soft serve. Seems like a small thing but it definitely isn’t, with all of the things I can’t eat these days.🍦

Some parts of this week planted just enough hope,

Some parts of this week planted just enough hope, even if today was crap and tonight/tomorrow are now 100% dedicated to my rejuvenation. (Seriously. Do not ask me for a fucking thing. I am off all the clocks. My status is AWAY.)✨

Today I’m able to bring myself up for air in the

Today I’m able to bring myself up for air in the midst of new routines and responsibilities. Turns out very serious chess players are flummoxed by my no-fucks-given chaos approach. I’ve won both games spouse and I have played. 🤯Really glad we grabbed a cheap checkers/chess set during this pandemic, because I’ve spent my entire life believing I’m terrible at chess and never playing. Funny, the narratives we allow to be permanent about ourselves. I’ve proven a lot of my internal narratives wrong in the past week and a half, actually.

Weekend deck life. #nanowrimo #wanderingdude #el

Weekend deck life.

#nanowrimo #wanderingdude #elmtree #backtoautumn #latesummer

Off duty from the paying job until next week, whic

Off duty from the paying job until next week, which I haven’t done in a very long time, and home as a family with no one working for three days in a row, which has also not happened in a very long time. I plan to be found virtually gardening in ACNH, necromancing in Diablo III, riding my bike, creating planner content for #SoulfulFocus, reading The New Jim Crow, watching terrible Netflix romances, unpacking @k12learn supplies, and gently breathing through yet another transition coming up next week.

Sunday evening I tossed the current seasonal altar

Sunday evening I tossed the current seasonal altar and built something new. It felt powerful to engage in that ritual in a world that is built to prevent us from doing that very thing as a collective. I’m humbled by those who show all of us the ways to do it anyway. Today, sitting at the other end of this week, I am breathing deeply and clearing the way toward another week of the same.

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#SoulfulFocus community folx, I’ll see you Monday at 2 pm EST for Soul Circle, which is even more of a life line now that we’ve moved to Monday afternoons. Thank you for being witnesses and allowing me to witness each of you. There are a few quick bits of content on the blog and a full look at my current planner is coming soon after my first week in my current @SavorLifePlanner. Virgo season always has me VERY in my planner, particularly right now.

Newest plant friend from @thesill. I adore snake p

Newest plant friend from @thesill. I adore snake plants so I’m super happy to see this arrive as part of my low light plant subscription. This monthly mail has been a thing I’ve looked forward to every month since beginning to work from home. Best investment in the home work space for this plant-loving, hearth-tending Taurus. 🌱♥️

I bought my first hammock. How had I never been in

I bought my first hammock. How had I never been in one of these before? August has been a whole fucking month and it’s not even halfway over. I’ll be in this new happy place until further notice, reading and working toward tearing broken systems down, planning my survival of the upcoming school year, resting between moments of complex work and healing (for myself, for others, for collective), and looking up. Highly recommend.

Happy International Lefthanders Day. Writing my ch

Happy International Lefthanders Day. Writing my checkmarks backwards and throwing badly with my left hand since always.

#lefthandersday #leftybujo

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