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thymeless.

( thymeless ) archives:

    film / analogue archive, photography
conversations with / stories
journal, blog, thoughts



on healing
nature´s apothecary
on herbs
nutrition, recipes the taste of
medicinal recipes
safe space, mental care
body care

a collection of / recommendations of
objects
places, spaces
where to find / taste your food produce
create / make yourself ( remedies, body care, nutrition, recipes )
body care
beautiful words
books, reads


words (.)
questions (?)


seasons elements
summer water
spring winter earth
autumn wind
fire
energy

( produce, herb, remedy of the month / season )


senses
touch skin
smell scent
taste lips
sight eyes
sound tone



nature
soil
trees, leaves
shadows, light
sun(sets),(rise),(light)
moon
roots
textures, materials

cycles
women´s cycle
moon, lunar
seasons


almost...
january
february
march
april
may
june
july
august
september
october
november
december

nature´s colour palette:

brown
green
beige
blue

chestnut, cedar, clay, soil, bark, hazel
sage
cinnamon
ocean, frost

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branches between nature, healing and sensual art.

about me

A personal journey of finding beauty, health, growth and meaning. capturing and sharing them.
I hope that perhaps reading some words and taking in the visuals will remind you to cherish these moments / inspire you to develop new ones and find beauty, healing and comfort in nature. by being aware, by connecting to your senses. perhaps seeing beauty through someone else´s eyes now and then may inspire you to find beauty for yourself.

identifying what makes me feel lucky, brings me joy, brings tears to my eyes, makes me laugh, my heart beat, my blood flow, my pulse increase, hold my breath, my eyes shine, my cheeks flush, my skin texture change to goose bumps, what makes me feel attraction and energies, gets me excited, makes me experience emotions and feel, brings me comfort, peace, calmness, nourishment, health, balance, faith, stability. these things fill us with appreciation, inspiration, value, passion. they nurture our soul, give us purpose, make us grow and help us understand and express ourselves. find out how we can contribute to earth. and see the special inside and around us. in each other. in nature. in moments. in experiences. in sensations.

it´s a thymeless journey. (also thyme is my favourite herb)

after a lot of

thinking,
connecting different thoughts and areas,
exploring my mind,
listening to stories,
meeting,
sketching,
experiencing,
feeling,
hurting and healing,
reading, learning, studying, educating myself

I wanted to create this archive.

if you ask yourself what this website is about, the answer is not so simple. perhaps it doesn´t need an explanation or answer. you can call it *website/blog/journal/archive/album/sketchbook/collection/frames/listenings of thoughts, words, moments, feelings, stories, experiences, recommendations, ideas, references, topics on health, medicine, nutrition...*

it is a space for ..

drawing connections,
wholism,
recognizing patterns,
realizing how everything in nature and within ourselves is interconnected, intertwined and moves in cycles and seasons.

my intention is to combine my passions and bring together

medicine, ourselves, our bodies, minds, spirit, herbs, nutrition
<3 AND
nature, the aesthetic, sensal art, design, photography, architecture, items, places, senses, travelling, textures, tastes, people

we can draw energy from these different areas of our lives. they can help us heal.
everything we make a part of our life / we make space for. we create our own space for healing, energy and creativity.

I was never good putting/chopping off my passions into different categories. I always had the urge to look for connections/relationships/correlations, commonalities, patterns. looking for a way to combine.
everybody likes to connect something. oh how much, I love to collect thoughts, stories, words, moments.

warning number one:

it is a process, not a finished project. constant editing, adding, adjusting. want to keep it an open book, able to read along instead of getting finished work out there.
always have been curious about an artist´s drafts, an architect´s sketches, a clothing designer´s samples, maybe a playlist that was playing in the background on repeat, a creative´s mood board, the conversations and travels that shaped and inspired, the ups and downs, a chefs dish experiments, a farm growing new seeds, the failure and success, new friendships, choices of textures and shades, sensual impressions, drafts, a person´s intention and story. how different sources of inspiration, time and hard work shaped the outcome. I believe these are one of the things that make out the soul and personality of everything we share with the world.

I want to keep this raw, natural and messy. a sketchbook. you will come across mistakes, sometimes a lack of structure order and sense, unfinished sentences, maybe even different languages. you will find random words, thoughts, sentences. some things may not make sense. want this to be a space for rawness, for being natural. for being me.

letting my past, current and future experiences, passions, encounters, interests in topics join.

within a world of that often tries to bring artificial perfectionsim and standardization. although tbh I am a little bit of a perfectionist, I decided to just let go this time, allowing myself to leave things raw and unfinished.
just because thoughts are never perfect or complete nor have to make sense. they are ever-evolving/changing.
importance of seeing the story / process of something. whether it is this website, or how bread is made from grain to loaf, how a plant starts as a seed and grows into valuable medicine.

writing has always had a special place in my heart. I love writing. especially the flowy, brainstorming, getting your thoughts on paper, drafting, conceptualizing part. not so much the finishing, re-editing, overthinking, perfectionalizing part. I find that the first version of how you get something on paper is the purest, most intentional, most “you” one.

when writing I sometimes find myself wanting to use several different words instead of one. always had something for synonyms. different ways of expressing what I want to say. several words resonating with a thought. every time I had to write essays, I had to cross out or pick one of the words and cross the other one out. our mind doesn´t have a word count limit. there shouldn´t be any rules for us when it comes to creativity and expressing ourselves.

so, sorry for the many “/”´s, “( )”´´s and “,”´s / slashes, brackets and commas. sorry for sentences that appear too short or too long.

realizing my own patterns, how my mind works, what I am good at.
thinking, observing, listening, writing > talking

writing on several things instead of starting something and having to finish before starting the next. leaves space for spontaneous inspirations. the thought you have in the middle of the night. that dream you had.

warning number two:

our passions and thoughts are very personal. plus I am quite sensible. so it may get vulnerable and emotional.

“never only, also about...”

during all these years of studying medicine and health, it was never only about the anatomy, physiology, pathology, science, systems of our bodies,...it was about understanding the body in deeper ways.

nutrition, was never only about the dish, but about every single ingredient, process, flavours, background, farmers, quality, seasonality, locality, following up back to its source, the people preparing the dish, the atmosphere, the company, the record playing in the background, the company, the soul of the entire space.

for me, it was never “only grocery shopping”. it was always a treasure hunt for the most precious produce I could find around me.

never only about the state of psychology mental health but also about understanding what causes these feelings, energetic frequencies, traits, behavioural patterns, influence and impact of relationships growing up, what triggers/evokes emotions, reactions, what forms our neural pathways, but most importantly our gut feelings, impulses and intuition.

it is never only about the photo. it´s about the moment, the sensations, the pair of eyes looking through the lens.

it was never only about the product in my hands. it was about acknowledging the materials, textures, treatment, details, packaging, colours, smell, the person creating it.

my state of health was never just about my body but also always about the strong influence of my mind, the inner and emotional.

it was never only about the symptoms and therapy but about understanding the root cause.

it was never learning something by hard but understanding and feeling it.

healing is never only about taking medication, it is about you taking care of yourself. listening and understanding your body. your body and you are in this together.

nature = body

a memory (sintra, portugal):

talking while harvesting vegetables. I said “I missed being in nature”. he said” “how can you miss nature? nature is always with you. because we are nature”.

when we look closely everything is connected. whether we look for it within our bodies or nature. while studying medicine, certain structures and processes in our bodies reminded me of a familiar pattern in nature:

nature: roots, branches

body: lung branches, veins

nature: walnuts

body: brain

( coming from the old beautiful belief specific plants are healing and have an affinity for a specific organ/tissue )

nature: cycles

body: hormonal/endocrine system, menstrual cycle, pituitary gland/circadian rhythm

( moon, seasons, weather, months, sunrise, sunset )

elements:

nature body

air breath
water body fluids
fire heat, energy
earth tissues

a tree reaching with its roots deeper than the surface. a reminder that it takes a deeper look and understanding.

...

in a world full of disconnection, fast pace, screens, overstimulation, artifical production, anxiety, commercialism, mass production, pressure, marketing, consumerism, the pressure of having to perform consistently all the time, choosing homogeneity and standardization we risk losing identity, uniqueness and imperfection of our bodies and personalities.
let´s try to get back into touch, dialogue and interaction with nature, our minds and each other.

let´s support and value what nature has to offer: building blocks, plants, materials, ingredients. let´s take care of them, use them more mindfully, locally and directly. the wool from sheep (instead of synthetic fabric), wood for a chair (instead of plastic), the wild berries and mushrooms growing in the forest (instead of getting them from the supermarket), the medicine within the sage growing in our garden (instead of the cough spray from the pharmacy), the thyme thriving in your garden (instead of a packaged tea bag). I promise what these small blessings from nature give is worth it. they give back so much more.