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The Impossible Garden and the Wildforest
It is all about finding the thin line that is both a thread and also a space through which you slip through. It is about being able to live through all the possibilities. It is having that capacity for hope, that at the next turn it could be the street of a city you’ve never been to. Or when you look up from stirring your coffee you see a face that recognizes you from a dream you had countless nights ago. It is finding the bridges across the oceans of cannot-mustnot-shouldnot
Marichit Garcia
Nov 183 min read


This is Why
This is why the garden is impossible and the forest is wild. It is a present that is writing its history in order to shape a desired future. And with every shaping the future becomes the present. And the past is a vast, vast landscape where anything could have happened. To craft a story one needs to be fluent in forest, for it is wildwork , and only chaos carries the seeds of impossibles. To be fluent in forest one must navigate the grammar of dreams, and wrestle some of the
Marichit Garcia
Oct 291 min read


A Spell for Returning to Myself
Salt of my tears, Ash of my silence, Bone of my body that refuses to break, I call you back. By root and river, By breath and blood, By...
Marichit Garcia
Sep 291 min read


Storytelling
I have my luck, and then I have my misfortune. My life has been an endless rollercoaster. The pandemic feels like a distant memory, yet its impact lingers. It has twisted my life into tricky knots. Loose ends trip me up, often where it hurts the most. Resilience is becoming an ugly word. It’s heavy. It carries weight. Knowing better comes with consequences. There are trade-offs, endless bargaining with many variations of the devil. I often find myself at crossroads or dead en
Marichit Garcia
Sep 292 min read


Waiting for the Meds to Kick In
I actually wanted to read but I realized I'm more tired than I think. I wanted to write by hand in my journal but I am too tired to set...
Marichit Garcia
Aug 123 min read


Octopus Award and other things
I won a recognition award at the office townhall yesterday. It was the Octopus Award. Because I was the person who was involved in almost...
Marichit Garcia
Aug 23 min read


Monster Season Back Too Soon
The monster has returned. It wears the face of obligation, the skin of expectation, the breath of never-enough. It knocks on the door...
Marichit Garcia
Jul 261 min read


Drowning
Sunday. The sacred sigh of the week. And yet here I am, not wrapped in dream-rich reverie or trailing ink into something that might...
Marichit Garcia
Jul 202 min read


A Little Bit of Magic
There’s something deeply human about the need to impose order on chaos. When life begins to fray at the edges—when work becomes a knot of...
Marichit Garcia
Feb 112 min read


When Things Fall Into Place
Have you ever experienced one of those rare moments in life where events unfold so seamlessly, it feels like the universe is conspiring...
Marichit Garcia
Feb 73 min read


Slowly Winning Over the Defaults
Lately, something has been shifting. It’s subtle, like the way dawn creeps in before you’re fully awake—hazy at first, then unmistakable....
Marichit Garcia
Feb 22 min read


I need a door
Silence in the forest of my mind. Life on a held breath. Silence of sleep, deep deep slumber. Exhaustion. Sickness. A touch of death....
Marichit Garcia
Jan 222 min read


Season of Shifting Selves
I have always had a fondness for the season of October. The whole idea of "thinning of the veil" and passing through walls and worlds. In...
Marichit Garcia
Oct 17, 20242 min read


The Beginning of an End
I have a lot of particularly strong thoughts and feelings today. My current way and days of life are perhaps coming to a kind of end and,...

Marichit Garcia
Dec 20, 20212 min read


A Trail to Follow and Flow Through
Since last week I’ve been in a very “flowing” state and it has been difficult to get into a dayjob mode. The flowing has to do more with...

Marichit Garcia
Aug 24, 20213 min read


What is the Wildforest?
The wildforest is a country, a heart, a fairy tale.

Marichit Garcia
Jun 24, 20211 min read


This is where I buried my heart
This is where I buried my heart, no, I mean this is where I planted my heart, like a seed, like a treasure, here in the middle of a...

Marichit Garcia
Dec 1, 20201 min read


The First-time Visitor's Guide to the Impossible Garden & the Wildforest
It is said that the content of this guide are from fragments that show up at random times after a summer rain, or in the aftermath of a storm. Finding one means the forest is speaking to you, and is hoping to be heard.

Marichit Garcia
Nov 27, 20201 min read