Specimen Monthly: Sophie Strand Edition

BIG AUTUMN ENERGY!

Big autumn energy!

With cold-nose season on the horizon, what better way to call in transition than with a piece by Sophie Strand?

Sophie is a self-described compost heap who writes at the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. Give Sophie a salamander and a stone, and she’ll write you a love story. She was raised by house cats, puffballs, possums, raccoons, and an opinionated, crippled goose. In every neighborhood she’s ever lived in, Sophie’s been known as “the walker,” believing that thinking happens interstitially—between beings, ideas, differences, and mythical gradients.

Do your brain a kindness and follow her Substack, Make Me Good Soil. And pick up one of her books: The Flowering Wand, The Madonna Secret, or The Body is a Doorway. She weaves a wondrous web!

FIRST SOME ANNOUNCEMENTS

1. NEW SHIRTS ALERT: GO HERE to see a coupla new tees, including a special one for Sophie.

2. IN LA: Our next Greenhouse Parking Lot Sale is this weekend, Saturday - Sunday September 7th and…