hope for the flowers

It's now been a year and a month since wonder | wander | women went into lockdown. Last year I was home with a month's worth of groceries, watching the cherry tree two streets over come into flower and then drop its blooms. I only saw it from my window, too anxious and disoriented to leave the house and cross the suddenly-silent city streets, even for our favourite flowers.

don't just look down, look around

Sleep has been patchy lately. Our worst emotions feel closer to the surface, ready to bubble up at each new shock. We're hyperaware and hypersensitive, over-mindful of our space and the proximity of others. We have to remind ourselves that we are still in a living, vibrant world.

past, present, future perfect

wonder | wander | women love our female trailblazers! Rebecca Solnit and Maria Popova of Brain Pickings are among our top contenders.

Both women are omnivores who avidly aggregate their digging and rooting around into beautifully textured and nuanced story telling that captures our attention and fires our imagination.

This is why we love and respect these two icons. When Brain Picking published a review of Hope in the Dark, we were over the moon.