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🥀❤️‍🩹🌹 What Wants to Bloom From This Grief — exploring how loss and change can seed new growth

Grief doesn’t only come from death. In this reflection, explore how loss and change plant the seeds of new growth and what it means to begin again.

Insa 10/30/25 Insa 10/30/25

🕯️ Samhain and The Unspoken: Tending Grief, Memory, and What Still Haunts Us

Grief does not always come from death. At Samhain, we honor what we’ve lost: people, relationships, and parts of ourselves. This reflection explores seasonal thresholds and the healing practice of grief gardening.

Insa 10/19/25 Insa 10/19/25

🌈 Returning to Color & Joy: Finding Light in Creative Burnout and Grief

Joy didn’t return after the grief. It bloomed quietly inside it — in color, in small creations, in socks and paint and the pulse of something still very much alive.

Insa 10/12/25 Insa 10/12/25

❤️‍🩹 Grief Gardens: Ritual Spaces for What We’ve Lost (and What We’re Growing)

A grief garden isn’t just a place to plant. It’s a living altar. In this post, I share what a grief garden is, how it can support emotional and spiritual healing, and how one client honored her mother’s memory through a small, sacred space. Whether you're grieving a loved one, a version of yourself, or a season of life, this is an invitation to slow down, root in presence, and tend what still matters.

Insa 10/5/25 Insa 10/5/25

🪱 Composting Grief

Grief, like compost, it isn’t something to fix, it’s something to tend and work with. The garden reminds me that what falls apart can still become fertile, that loss can turn into new life.

Insa 9/21/25 Insa 9/21/25

🍂 Fall Equinox, Solar Eclipse and Mabon: At the Threshold Where Light Meets Dark

Insa 7/24/25 Insa 7/24/25

Welcome to Spite & Bloom

Spite & Bloom is a blog about creating beauty, connection, and meaning even in uncertain times. You will find stories of creativity, nature, healing, and slow living told through personal reflections, garden metaphors, and art in progress.

Insa 7/19/25 Insa 7/19/25

Antlers in the Dark: What Two Deer Taught Me About Fragility and Strength

A sick deer appeared in my yard one summer evening and I could not stop thinking about it. Weeks later I witnessed its final days and the healthy deer that stayed close until the end. This is what the experience taught me about fragility, strength, and the cycles we cannot control.