manjula martin

@manjula.bsky.social

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writer/rocker/Luddite 🌸🔥🌲🌊 https://www.manjulamartin.com/

"Sometimes it can feel hard to justify why I'm writing about ideas versus actually doing something, but the ideas are also important. Reading other people's ideas helps me see more clearly what I want to be doing and helps me sharpen my own commitments. I'm trying to tell myself it's okay. It is not possible to be fully on the ground, trying to do all the things, while also doing the very slow work of trying to come up with a story that incorporates those ideas well, and also parenting. Let me not forget my actual children, although they probably do feel like they get sort of forgotten. They're always like, 'Mommy has a meeting.' - Lydia Kiesling"
Picture of a wildflower by the roadside, Diogenes’s Lantern (calochortus amabilis)—a yellow lantern-shaped bell flower nestled amongst grasses at golden hour
In the foreground of the photo is a large freshly cut armful of peach and pink roses, in the background a yard with green tall grass surrounded by big trees, a wooden shed, sunbeam shining on a crystal orb in the middle of a wooden table
Screenshot from the Scratch interview with Angela Garbes, in which Angela and Manjula Martin discuss linen pants as an expression of midlife identity
Image of four women writers with thought bubbles and emojis and the title THE SCRATCH GROUP CHAT - How We Get By
Wooden vase with one red anemone flower on a wood coffee table, and a tarot card: The Sun
drawing of a notepad with the words SCRATCH - how your favorite writers are surviving (or not)
Wooden table on which is a small vase of flowers - red anemones, pink jasmine and ranunculus, a deep purple “Vincent Van Gogh” tulip- and a tarot card: the Five of Cups
Wooden table in front of maroon couch with a small jar of pink magnolia blossoms, a lidded cup of tea, and a tarot card: the Page of Cups
A jar of tulips and anemones on a wooden coffee table with a red tea mug and a tarot card: The Empress
A jar of tulips and tree blossoms on a wooden table alongside a red mug and a Tarot card: Judgment
wooden table, bottle of flowers with fallen camellia blooms all around it, a teacup, and a tarot card: the Six of Wands
a jar of camellia, rosemary, and salvia flowers on a wooden table: a coffee mug; and a tarot card: The Magician
Wood coffee table, yellow ceramic vase, bouquet of late-season yellow flowers and grey foliage, red coffee mug, and a tarot card: The Tower
On a wooden coffee table, a green mug of tea and a vase of small orange roses, and a tarot card: Seven of Coins
Wooden coffee table, ceramic vase glazed chartreuse green; inside, a bouquet of winter flowers —purple mums, yellow marigolds, silver Dusty Miller— and in front of them a tarot card: The Fool
Candles on a table in a dark room with a jar of cornflowers and a tarot card: the Three of Wands
Wooden table in front of a red couch; on the table is a small jar full of blue bachelor’s button flowers and a tarot card: The Tower
Wooden table with couch and multicolored pillows in the background, foregrounding a jar of pink roses and orange smoke-bush leaves, and a tarot card: The Star
a wood table bearing a small jar of orange and pink flowers, surrounded by a circle of drying marigolds, and a tarot card: the Ten of Coins
A wooden table bearing a vase of wilted roses, fallen petals, and a tarot card: The Fool
A bowl of pink camellia blossoms and a tarot card: the Page of Cups
coffee table with vase of quince blossoms, mug of tea, small plate of scrambled eggs, and a Tarot card: the Six of Cups
A wooden tabletop; a thin white glass vase with a few blooming quince branches; a green coffee mug; a Tarot card: the Ten of Cups
A thin white vase of flowers above a tarot card: The Hermit
a case of red, blue, and pink flowers on a wooden table with a tarot card displayed: the Nine of Coins
a white glass vase with a minimal arrangement of white flowers, and a tarot card: The Empress
a white poppy in a vase and a tarot card: Knight of Wands
On a wooden table, a vase full of white anenome flowers and eucalyptus foliage, with a tarot card: the High Priestess
A vase of white anemone flowers and a tarot card: the Ten of Coins
A tarot card: the knight of cups
Tarot card: two of wands
Red berries in a white vase, wood coffee table; tarot card: the Seven of Coins
On a coffee table, an orange mug, a vase of red flowers, and a tarot card: the Hanged Man
Red rose, white vase, turquoise coffee mug, Ace of Coins tarot card
a thin white vase with a peach rose; orange mug of tea; flowered porcelain plate with toast nubs; and a tarot card, the Six of Coins
Vase of brightly colored winter flowers, cup of tea, plate with toast, and a tarot card: the Eight of Wands
wooden table with a jar containing a big apricot colored rose, and a tarot card: the nine of swords
A vase of roses, petals fallen to the table below, above a tarot card: The Tower.
blue mug, white vase with red, yellow, peach colored roses, flower patterned plate with toast, and in the center a tarot card: Death, featuring a collage portraying a skeleton standing atop a pile of marigolds
small milk glass vase with blue cornflowers, a plate with toast on it, a blue mug of tea, and in the center a tarot card: six of swords, in which a figure looking downward drifts onward through the sea in a boat bearing six swords stabbed into the hull
wooden coffee table featuring a bouquet of bachelors buttons, tarot card (The Fool), toast, tea, and the corner of a book called Seasonal Guide to the Natural Year, Northern California
A view from above of a milk-glass vase containing apricot hues roses, and a tarot card: the nine of coins, bearing an image of a figure reaching toward the sky with bay laurel leaves