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Make things with your hands - Isabel Unraveled

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to remember the pace reality is actually meant to move at

For a long time without realizing it, most of my winter rituals have been about returning to the pace of reality by making things with my hands. It is a time where I start knitting again, baking more, and adorning my space much more thoughtfully and carefully than I seem to have the mental spaciousness to do in the summer. It isn’t something I am forcing myself to do, or even consciously wanting to do. It is just something that I do. Naturally. And lately I’ve found myself reflecting on why. The winter, a season which gets an unfairly harsh reputation in my view, is a time where we are…

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