Michelle Cozens

@measureofcalm.bsky.social

Saved by nature 🍄🌱🪺🐿️🦉 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ally Member of #EastCoastKin arts collective All photos my own, except for reposts No DMs please American living in New Zealand

Pears were ready to be picked. My tree tends to alternate years between light & heavy crops. This is a light one. I try to mostly eat local & my own produce each summer— especially this summer! Once picked, pears ripen slowly & can be stored in the basement or refrigerator to be enjoyed gradually.

A flat cardboard box filled with green Bartlett pears from a backyard tree.

As a child I was caught up in the romance of beachcombing. We only went to the beach a few times in the summer, but I would always search the tide line for special shells and rocks. Now that the sea is so close to my front door, I am enthralled daily, but take only photographs. Mostly. 🥰🌊🐚

A still life of objects that washed up on the beach. In the center of the image is a sea star, flipped upside down. Above the sea star is a tangled bunch of plant materials. Below the sea star is a dark piece of driftwood with a small pinkish shell nestled against it, just below the sea star. Taken on Paraparaumu Beach on July 27, 2006.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. - Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

PHOTO by Quang Vuong. A narrow aisle stretches deep into a monochrome labyrinth of tall bookshelves, packed tightly with aged spines and endless stories. Overhead signs mark categories—Poetry, U.S. History, Literary Bios—dangling above the quiet corridor. A lone step ladder waits mid-path, inviting the seeker upward. Fluorescent lights cast a sterile glow, yet the space feels timeless, suspended between thought and memory. The silence is thick, broken only by the imagined rustle of turning pages.

Work in progress. Trees are over represented in my archive of interesting images I save for future glass inspiration. I’m going to enjoy this stage for a few days before I start to tape.

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"May the road rise to meet you.May the wind be always at your back.May the sun shine warm upon your face,The rains fall soft upon your fields,And until we meet again,May God hold you in the palm of His hand."

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There’s one In every family - The Complainer. Complaining about the same stuff you have to put up with too. But remember - You actually agree. There’s a lot to complain about. You just cope better. So get out those good coping skills and say, “I know! It’s awful.”

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