it's okay to be happy

This is an interesting topic to embark on. Those who are ‘happy’ are often lumped into, ‘They’re fine.’ or ‘They don’t need help.’ For the most part, this is true. We have built in coping mechanisms that push us to pursue happiness. Most of us developed these in childhood, sometimes from traumatic experiences, and they are how we are able to move through and function in the world.

Idyll MercantileApril 4, 2020corona, quarantine, happiness, truth, trust, timeComment

Existing in Today's World

It should be simple. There is one earth worth of resources given to sustain all life on the planet. These resources are in essence enough to continuously carry out life forever… and yet, we are hyper-focused on consumption. On what is already available and how to use it. We neglect the decomposition. We neglect death and demand life. We forget the importance of letting things decompose.

Idyll MercantileSeptember 25, 2019earth, nature, life, time, trust, love, politics, capitalism, change, greta thunbergComment

Loving Isn't Easy

Loving means taking the lump of who we are today and forgiving ourselves for what we did and didn’t do. Loving means tough work, and the beauty of the reward that follows.

Idyll MercantileJuly 17, 2019love, lovin isn't easy, rex county orange, love blog, blog, self love, big love, tiem, trustComment

A Man Who Moves

Many of my friends have suggested ‘going slow’ which little do they know, is not an option when you are moving fast. Moving, traveling, changing place… they all lead to a feeling of ‘carpe diem’ every. single. day. With the widespread unknown of if you will see a person or a place again, each moment becomes rich with the desire to savor and slurp them up.

Idyll MercantileMay 12, 2019big love, love, relationships, transient men, travel, time, trustComment

We Need More Art

There is pressure to make MORE money, do MORE things, meet MORE people, eat MORE food, eat MORE of the right foods, walk MORE, exercise MORE, be MORE than we already are. We don’t need more. We have enough. We are enough. There is still the exact same amount of happiness available in the joy we find in the simple things.

Idyll MercantileJanuary 10, 2019Art, earth, artist, children, play, learn, unlearn, experience, live, poetry, wisdom, journaling, self help, self love, capitalism, trustComment

Our bodies: A map to our selves

Our bodies are our first guarantee. Take a second to feel your body. To move into your eyes that are moving across this page and processing lines that form words that form meaning that move into your brain. Feel your brain. A lump of muscle, floating in a fluid approximately the salinity of the sea, transmitting thought through a series of cords running down your back. Feel your back. Feel your spine. Feel…

Idyll MercantileDecember 29, 2018Life, journal, body wisdom, love, trust, truth, intuition, time, woman, women, women empowerment, how to find yourself, simple truth, simple things, art, poetryComment

Boundaries

I had been so preoccupied with the variety of different me’s I could be that corresponded with whichever lover captured my interest, that I didn’t spend time defining my own. I followed my curiosity deeply, and was left with feelings of unsettledness and confusion as I lost interest and watched my partners lose interest in me. I see now why they interpreted my motives as “fake” though I still stand firm in my genuine curiosity and the truth I carried through all of my personas.