HERE’S THE DEAL: I’m a mess. I used to hate that about myself, but I’ve come to accept— and appreciate that quality. This post will be a short introduction to me, my Substack, etc.
What will I be posting on my Substack?
Literally everything: diary entries, travel diaries, poetry, book reviews and recommendations. I will have little storytimes (some somber, others more joyful), travel diaries with my fav bookstores and cafés, hauls from my local library trips, analysis on the books I’ve read, stacks of book recommendations, diary entries about life… sometimes a little trauma dump, some of my original poetry that has never seen the light of day, maybe a few recipes, etc. What wonders and adventures lay before us!
I used to feel so insecure about who I was: a weird empath that loves funky jewelry, baggy floral clothes, family, and sisterhood. A girl that feels too deeply and analyzes too much. I’M JUST AN EARTH-LOVING NERD, OK?
I started embracing who I am about two or three years ago, honestly. I started running through the rain, jumping barefoot in puddles, crying over other people’s problems, baking ‘just-because’ cakes, watching the Pippi Longstocking movies over and over, wearing floral dresses and outfits, buying oversized and worn cardigans, hoarding asymmetrical jewelry, and using my local library (an excessive amount).
I plan to be twenty-seven, thirty-six, forty-three, seventy-two still channeling child-like joy by styling my locs into two braids, decorating my hair with flowers, buying trinkets that I will fill cookie tins with, making mugs of tea for guest that visit my cottage, writing love letters to people just because I missed them, baking cakes and cookies for my loved ones, having a bookshelf stocked with broken spine — annotated books that I love, playing scrabble, and picking flowers.
My fav…
Musical Artists — Sonder, Samara Joy, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Liana Flores, Million Eyes
Genres — Any and everything I can get my hands on (Truly. I don’t discriminate).
Movies/ Shows — Pippi Longstockings (THE ORIGINAL), anything on PBS Kids, Schitts Creek, Black Panther 1 & 2
Tea — Hibiscus, Brown, Herbal, Green, Peppermint, Matcha, Berry/Citrus
Instagram accounts— @interestedinblackbooks, @dronme, @maaads.reads, @theireyeswerereading, @_oliviasays, @nina.haines
Foods — gingerbread cookies, macro bowls, banana bread, pho, pasta primavera
Activities — ceramics, yoga, writing, swimming, travel, crochet
Fictional Characters — Pippi Longstocking, DW, Princess Elaina, Danika Brown
I will just use this blog to talk. Let us all manifest a horse and a cottage into our futures.
See ya soon,
Yulani Sann.