I read this twice today to fully soak it in. I attended the scent class in my favourite robe, I used the last of my rose oil in today's practice. I booked a movie ticket at a theatre 45 minutes away, even though there's like 4 theatres next to my home, because that particular faraway one is Venusian and beautiful and luxurious. I bought the Full Moon Coffee Shop at my favourite indie bookstore. I feel like being inconvenienced for beauty is slowly becoming my favourite thing ever.
This is so resonate. I’ve been exploring beauty in my own life recently in my wardrobe, in the moments I experience, in the food I eat. It’s 10% aesthetics and 90% mindset for me and it truly does make such a difference within me when I turn my attention toward it.
The title immediately took me to Murakami’s “what I talk about when I talk about running” and that’s one of my favourite books ever! I loved this so much too, what a beautiful piece!
Beauty is pulsing in every word of this piece! I absolutely love your invitation to hold any part of beauty in every part of us — it feels simultaneously like a grounding anchor and a warm sun 🥹 thank you for your beauty!
Gorgeous words, Emmie. I will be forever grateful for the way your work has alchemised my relationship to beauty. I find it really hard to cry so I'm shocked to feel emotion rising in my throat just typing this comment. I could go on but I might cry and I'm in the public library... so I'll leave it to two words from a bone-deep, moss-covered, sun-warmed and moonlit place: thank you.
this ended up as an open tab on my laptop to return to again and again. it is the definition of one of those feelings one can hardly describe. this aching pain, that is also love. this full feeling, that makes you wanna wail up tears to release it all, but not with desperation, but in awe and gratitude. thank you emmie for the beauty that you embody.
I am so excited to have stumbled across your work. I follow many women in similar spheres with a heavy focus on the depth and importance of Beauty in all of our lives.
My Substack is barely off the ground, but I am quietly in my spare time working towards publishing a magazine of sorts-that will be quite different to my previous three articles. It will be themed around Soma (Body), Food, God, Mother Earth and The Feminine <3.
In my day-to-day life I am a poet, an activist, a Lover, and a folk-magick practitioner (while working part time to finish my Psychology degree).
wow Emmie!! thank you so so much for this piece <3 I was getting shivers the entire time!! thank you for bringing shirley barber to my attention. growing up I was also obsessed with her books but never knew the author's name so the enchanted fairyland always existed as this deep, long lost memory in my mind. I almost cried seeing the images
Hey Emmie! Thanks for the invite to share. I am Veera, from Helsinki, Finland and I write on Substack about life, growth, and the things we keep showing up for—whether that’s writing, cooking, or simply paying attention to the little moments that matter.
I always look forward to your posts and truly truly love them, so thank you for sharing your work and for creating so much beauty to this world.
I post personal reflections on Fridays and Supper Tale stories on Mondays. Would love to connect with others in this lovely space you have created xx
I love this, the little reminders of beauty - to look out for them. Thank you for sharing, I sprinkle flower petals upon your path forward. The Goddess Practice was so needed today to shake through some stickiness. Thank you, thank you.
I'm not sure what it was about this. The fact that I am surrounded by pink and golden lighting, that I just lit incense, that I had written an hour ago that to open myself up to life more I need to share the beauty I see more instead of worrying about how other people view me and my joys or the similarities in our age and our childhoods but I began crying as I read this.
Thank you, this was magical, and clearly very needed.
Shirley Barber has truly shaped more about me and my life than I had ever realised until I rediscovered and bought a book of hers at a church market a few years back.
I read this twice today to fully soak it in. I attended the scent class in my favourite robe, I used the last of my rose oil in today's practice. I booked a movie ticket at a theatre 45 minutes away, even though there's like 4 theatres next to my home, because that particular faraway one is Venusian and beautiful and luxurious. I bought the Full Moon Coffee Shop at my favourite indie bookstore. I feel like being inconvenienced for beauty is slowly becoming my favourite thing ever.
being inconvenienced for beauty is an incredible name for a piece / poem !! i love this idea so much 🥺
This is so resonate. I’ve been exploring beauty in my own life recently in my wardrobe, in the moments I experience, in the food I eat. It’s 10% aesthetics and 90% mindset for me and it truly does make such a difference within me when I turn my attention toward it.
I love this --- 10% aesthetics and 90% mindset !! so spot on xx
The title immediately took me to Murakami’s “what I talk about when I talk about running” and that’s one of my favourite books ever! I loved this so much too, what a beautiful piece!
Ahhh thank you Sheryl! I love that book too, I likely was unconsciously inspired by the title!
Haha, I think that’s very fitting since he himself was inspired by Raymond Carver's “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love”. ✨🤍
Beauty is pulsing in every word of this piece! I absolutely love your invitation to hold any part of beauty in every part of us — it feels simultaneously like a grounding anchor and a warm sun 🥹 thank you for your beauty!
Thank you, Bry ! 🥺
The radiance of soul. <3
This writing is beautiful. As always so beautiful 🌸🧚♀️🤍
Dear Emmie, I love this piece🥹
Your work has reminded me, over and over, that beauty is necessary. It is the thing that steadies and softens, that holds us when things are hard.
Thank you for the permission to not race, to not reach for more, but instead, to turn toward depth, toward poetry, toward the small and sacred.
Your work has really changed my life for the better, I am so so grateful. Cannot wait for more✨
Nadia 😭 with all my heart, thank you so much 🥺🤍
Gorgeous words, Emmie. I will be forever grateful for the way your work has alchemised my relationship to beauty. I find it really hard to cry so I'm shocked to feel emotion rising in my throat just typing this comment. I could go on but I might cry and I'm in the public library... so I'll leave it to two words from a bone-deep, moss-covered, sun-warmed and moonlit place: thank you.
Ruby 🥺🥺🥺 this gave me goosebumps !!!! All the sweet love to you !!!
this ended up as an open tab on my laptop to return to again and again. it is the definition of one of those feelings one can hardly describe. this aching pain, that is also love. this full feeling, that makes you wanna wail up tears to release it all, but not with desperation, but in awe and gratitude. thank you emmie for the beauty that you embody.
I am so excited to have stumbled across your work. I follow many women in similar spheres with a heavy focus on the depth and importance of Beauty in all of our lives.
My Substack is barely off the ground, but I am quietly in my spare time working towards publishing a magazine of sorts-that will be quite different to my previous three articles. It will be themed around Soma (Body), Food, God, Mother Earth and The Feminine <3.
In my day-to-day life I am a poet, an activist, a Lover, and a folk-magick practitioner (while working part time to finish my Psychology degree).
My Substack: https://imbuearunsearc.substack.com/
wow Emmie!! thank you so so much for this piece <3 I was getting shivers the entire time!! thank you for bringing shirley barber to my attention. growing up I was also obsessed with her books but never knew the author's name so the enchanted fairyland always existed as this deep, long lost memory in my mind. I almost cried seeing the images
Hey Emmie! Thanks for the invite to share. I am Veera, from Helsinki, Finland and I write on Substack about life, growth, and the things we keep showing up for—whether that’s writing, cooking, or simply paying attention to the little moments that matter.
I always look forward to your posts and truly truly love them, so thank you for sharing your work and for creating so much beauty to this world.
I post personal reflections on Fridays and Supper Tale stories on Mondays. Would love to connect with others in this lovely space you have created xx
Here are my Substacks:
https://veerasoivio.substack.com
https://suppertale.substack.com
welcome to read <3
I love this, the little reminders of beauty - to look out for them. Thank you for sharing, I sprinkle flower petals upon your path forward. The Goddess Practice was so needed today to shake through some stickiness. Thank you, thank you.
I'm not sure what it was about this. The fact that I am surrounded by pink and golden lighting, that I just lit incense, that I had written an hour ago that to open myself up to life more I need to share the beauty I see more instead of worrying about how other people view me and my joys or the similarities in our age and our childhoods but I began crying as I read this.
Thank you, this was magical, and clearly very needed.
Shirley Barber has truly shaped more about me and my life than I had ever realised until I rediscovered and bought a book of hers at a church market a few years back.