little joys and little sorrows #7
muji notebooks, cosy hobbies, lots of reading, anxiety, daylight saving + more
It’s been a little while since I’ve done one of these and after the week I’ve had (feeling sick and dizzy for days), I think some gratitude and reflections are very much needed. How has the past month or so been treating you? I hope autumn has been lovely so far and we’re all feeling the cosy (or witchy!) vibes in full force.
I always love to see your own little quiet reflections in the comments so feel free to share them with everyone below.
little joys
The little planner I picked up from Muji where I can record daily happenings and track habits etc. It’s honestly one of the highlights of my year, it’s so minimalist and small and perfect. It’s a weekly spread on the left and a plain grid on the right so I can record what I ate, what I read, etc. and the back has a collection of plain grid pages where I record my mood and anxiety levels in a line graph. I am so over the moon that I am touching Mars.
Thinking of different crochet products I can add to my inventory (including a sleeve for my new Muji planner!)
Watching long YouTube videos while I crochet, so very calming and nice
Getting back into bullet journaling and realising how much I missed being creative with physical paper and stickers (and reigniting my passion for washi tape, a little sorrow for my purse)
Doing a lot of reading and realising that autumn is my peak reading time, how perfect
Reading a book in one sitting (The Ugly Truth by L.C. North, what a ride)
The subtle changing colours of the leaves
Stationery. That is all
Asking a friend who lives abroad to communicate via email and feeling much closer to her already. There’s something so intimate about writing and receiving long-form messages from friends. I wish I could do it with more of my friends
Going to my first wedding! It was beautiful
Enjoying knowing that I have a long list of things and hobbies I can do that are guaranteed to make me happy (almost) 100% of the time
Reading Oscar Wilde for the first time and loving it
Also this quote by him too: “Everything in moderation, including moderation.” Life changing? I think so?
little sorrows
Realising that I’m more or less afraid of everything and that anxiety runs my life a lot
Always seeming to be ill just at the moment when I’m the most motivated and have lots of things I want to do
Wanting to get back into short story writing but it never feeling right
Low motivation to go out due to darker days
Realising from my new Muji planner that I’ve felt nauseous practically every day this month… am I alright?
The clocks changing at the end of the month, lord help me
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Love the list of both joys and sorrows. Most of the time we just write about joys in your but writing about sorrows in your life help you see the whole highs and lows in your life.
Almost all of your little sorrows have aligned with mine. These seasons are tough because they always seem to come around when everything was just beginning to become beautiful. However I’ve learned that little sorrows can be beautiful too. I’ve learned to love my body and tell it that it’s doing a wonderful job despite how not ok it feels. Without the little sorrows I would’ve never learned these lessons.
This too shall pass 🤍