Learning to Trust the Next Step

Welcome back to another blurb from Soft Days Collective. I hope your weekend is off to a good start and that you have an adventure or two planned, even if that adventure looks like staying home, lighting a candle, and moving slowly. Things are warming up here on the North Shore, and subtle signs ofContinueContinue reading “Learning to Trust the Next Step”

Rooted Here: Life on the North Shore

As things slowly begin to warm up here on the North Shore after our two-week polar vortex cold snap, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the reasons I love living where I do. When you spend weeks wrapped in layers, watching frost climb the windows and listening to the wind roll off LakeContinueContinue reading “Rooted Here: Life on the North Shore”

Soft Beginnings in the Heart of Winter

With Imbolc just around the corner and the tiniest signs of spring beginning to wake up, it feels like a gentle reminder that the Wheel of the Year keeps turning—even when everything around us still looks frozen. This season always invites me to pause, take stock, and think about what I want to grow inContinueContinue reading “Soft Beginnings in the Heart of Winter”

A Day of Solidarity

Waking up this morning, it was a brisk -45 degrees with the windchill here on the North Shore of Lake Superior. But today is the day, the day that many of us Minnesotans are standing in solidarity with Minneapolis and our immigrant communities including Soft Days Collective. While many of my fellow Northern Minnesotans mayContinueContinue reading “A Day of Solidarity”