Comments on: My Mt. Shasta Story About Going With the Flow + Printable Quote Artwork https://liagriffith.com/my-mt-shasta-story-about-going-with-the-flow-printable-quote-artwork/ handcraft your life Thu, 03 Jul 2025 16:08:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Lia https://liagriffith.com/my-mt-shasta-story-about-going-with-the-flow-printable-quote-artwork/#comment-377675 Thu, 03 Jul 2025 16:08:40 +0000 https://liagriffith.com/?p=84443#comment-377675 In reply to Madeleine.

Thank you for sharing your story, Madeleine. So inspiring. I always feel that making paper flowers has me pause and look more often, and I love that others find this a thing too. ๐Ÿ™‚

]]> By: Lia https://liagriffith.com/my-mt-shasta-story-about-going-with-the-flow-printable-quote-artwork/#comment-377670 Thu, 03 Jul 2025 16:04:14 +0000 https://liagriffith.com/?p=84443#comment-377670 In reply to Kerstin.

Oh, so true. Nature regenerates us. ๐Ÿ™‚

]]> By: Kerstin https://liagriffith.com/my-mt-shasta-story-about-going-with-the-flow-printable-quote-artwork/#comment-377628 Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:15:48 +0000 https://liagriffith.com/?p=84443#comment-377628 “It was life saying, “Slow down. Pay attention. Let me show you something beautiful”

This is why I love being outside: walks in the mountain area; along wild flowing mountain rivers; along the banks of big streams; laying in a meadow and listening to the soil, the insects and everything what it tells me

]]> By: Madeleine https://liagriffith.com/my-mt-shasta-story-about-going-with-the-flow-printable-quote-artwork/#comment-377473 Wed, 02 Jul 2025 22:05:16 +0000 https://liagriffith.com/?p=84443#comment-377473 Linnaea, thank you so much for sharing your story and strength. If itโ€™s okay, Iโ€™d like to share as well. Last January I had to leave my family, I was drowning in graduate school, and my best friend of 14 years died. I was alone. I started hiking the same trail every day, and I made new connections with the plants and animals as I watched them come alive over the spring. Now I know when each dogwood starts to bloom, which buckeye puts its leaves out first, and this March I watched a Luna moth come out of its cocoon. Crafting flowers became a way to connect more deeply to the natural world, and I no longer feel so alone. The losses I experienced led me to see the world differently, and I am grateful for the new friendships I have with trees, fungi, bees, and all the other living things I love. Creating the projects here reminds me of the incredible web of life and that I do have a place I belong, even when I feel lost.

]]> By: Lia https://liagriffith.com/my-mt-shasta-story-about-going-with-the-flow-printable-quote-artwork/#comment-377338 Tue, 01 Jul 2025 15:46:33 +0000 https://liagriffith.com/?p=84443#comment-377338 In reply to Linnaea.

It really is. ๐Ÿ™‚

]]> By: Linnaea https://liagriffith.com/my-mt-shasta-story-about-going-with-the-flow-printable-quote-artwork/#comment-377334 Tue, 01 Jul 2025 15:40:31 +0000 https://liagriffith.com/?p=84443#comment-377334 In reply to Lia.

It is lovely to have companions on the path of a life lived differently. Thank you.

]]> By: Lia https://liagriffith.com/my-mt-shasta-story-about-going-with-the-flow-printable-quote-artwork/#comment-377328 Tue, 01 Jul 2025 15:34:02 +0000 https://liagriffith.com/?p=84443#comment-377328 In reply to Linnaea.

Good morning Linnaea. I have tears streaming down my cheeks. Thank you for sharing your story. So tender and so real. We are a community, and we are finding not only peace, but a new way to live. Your story has inspired and moved me as well.

]]> By: Linnaea https://liagriffith.com/my-mt-shasta-story-about-going-with-the-flow-printable-quote-artwork/#comment-377324 Tue, 01 Jul 2025 14:58:23 +0000 https://liagriffith.com/?p=84443#comment-377324 I am deeply moved by your story. You asked for others to share and I am doing that because your crafting brings me so much joy and this story has echoed something in my own knowing. In the past year I have had my own experience of flow and your flower patterns and the making of them have been part of what provided the solace that let me open to living in flow. In the past year I lost my son to a drug overdose, I lost my business (and therefore my work), I lost my home and everything I owned, and finally my life partner ended our partnership and my best friend withdrew from friendship with me. For many months I fought this steady stream of loss like a dragon. I found peace in the crafts I love, but I didn’t stop the fight, I just got more and more intense and it just seemed to lead to greater and greater loss. Then one day a friend asked me what I was going to do. I had no idea and that thought led me to stop — I stopped fighting and surrendered and magic happened. Instead of grieving my losses I rejoiced in where they had led me. I began to let in the amazing abundance of the earth, of nature, of people who lived life closer to the land, to beings around me who surrounded me with the care, their love and their bounty. As I began to live the surrender, it became clear to me that loss was a path that was leading me closer and closer to my heart. Lately, I’ve come to understand that living life as a deep answer to what wants to emerge. It is not just where I’m meant to be right now, it’s how I am meant to live life for the rest of my years. If we take the time to pause and listen, to trust that what is emerging is good even when it looks like an obstacle or a loss, something else happens and for me, it’s truly magic.

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