sugar, spice, and everything nice...

Illustration by Millicent Sowerby

I don't know if you're a Pinterest person or not. I am sometimes. I like it, scrolling through my own little collection of images, ideas, & interests. It certainly beats scrolling through, say, Reuters, where I can simultaneously see ads from where they've been snooping into my Amazon account. And when I like photos on instagram, where do they go? I have no idea. I can click on a little heart & see what other people have liked, but what about what I like? I just save my favorite instagram likes on Pinterest. That seems to be working for now. Where was I going with this? Oh ya. Pinterest has created a new update. Now it gives a little description at the top of each board, telling people what sorts of things are to be found there. Nobody ever fills in descriptions, so they've just taken to doing it for us. Whatever. Anyway, there's one page where you can view all the pins that you've ever pinned. Since there's a handy little description there, you can, at a glance, find out just what you're all about. It's like a visual personality assesment. All you have to do is sort through millions of images of which you will choose a handful of your favorites & voila, Pinterest will tell you who you are, in a nutshell. It takes a little time, but it's better than jellifying your brain with questions that have no good answer. I don't know, all those images can be a bit stupefying as well. Maybe it's not any better. But this assesment is pretty painless, seeing that it's actually going on while you're just minding your own business. Wait. You mean, at the click of a button, the whole world can see right through me and lump me into a mass to be squished around and shaped, flattend, & cut out with cute little cookie cutters? This age of tracking & categorizing is kind of scary. The interwebs keeps getting stickier & stickier. So anyway, the consensus is that my brain is full of lavender, herbs, foraging, plants, teas, honey, flowers, basil, dandelions, bees, bouquets, and healing. Not sure what anyone's going to do with all that information, hopefully nothing too sinister. Me, I'm going to take it to mean that inside my head is quite lovely. I mean, you can almost hear the birdies chirping in that garden. And that's just the way I like it.