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Mimi Young's hand reaches for Aura Care, a bottle of The Spell of Roses

Samhain Market Vancouver

Visit Mimi Young of Ceremonie this Saturday, October 28 from 7-10PM at @liquidambertattoo as part of the Art Social + Witches of Vancouver market event. The Skin + Aura Care will be available between 18-22% OFF, and it’s ONLY for this event, as well as my remaining Magick of Tea events for 2023 that such rad prices will be made available. 

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Portrait of Mimi Young and the Becoming Podcast logo on a beige background

Failure as a Confrontation with Death

Did you listen to my fun, rich, and wide-reaching interview Jessie Harrold of The Becoming Podcast? What we chatted about:⁣  Failure as a confrontation with death that ultimately makes us more human and divine⁣  How to suspend your disbelief and follow your intuition in a hyper-rational world⁣  Animism and working with tea as an ally⁣  How we clutch exogenous sources

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Not yet steeped oolong tea hovers over a gongfu style teapot, with two cups in the background. The image evokes a sense of inward thoughts.

Vertigo

The following poem below, originally titled Oversteeped Tea in May 2023, was first written for my blog and Substack, and then further edited and included in my limited edition artist’s book of poetry, A Tea Stronger Than Death: Poems of Hurt and Healing While On Sacred Buffalo Guardian Mountain. – Mimi Grief’s vertigo, softened by over-steeped Tea, takes me back

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An expansive image of mountain regions around Lake Louise (In the Stoney language of the Nakoda people the area is called Ho-run-num-nay, meaning "lake of the little fishes")

Tea Thoughts While On A Mountain

Some are new, some old, all have been on my mind (and body, and heart)… Obstacles are guided pathways, not roadblocks.  Nobody knows what they are really doing with their lives. When creating, “happiness” may actually indicate the comfortable and the already-done, and “discomfort” reveals vulnerability and possibilities. Anger signals a moment(s) when we recognize injustice and violation. Rage when

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A portrait of animist spirit medium and writer Mimi Young, wearing a cream cardigan and vermillion dress

In My Fantasies

In my fantasies, I’m smart, or at least, I can figure it out.I’m fun to be around.I like my body, and that she can do bendy, tip-toey, graceful things.I channel worthwhile ideas and things. My words matter. In my fantasies, I’m surrounded by friends, near and far, and that truly, they are always near. In my fantasies, I love myself,

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Nowhere Near It – 隔靴搔癢

Growing up in a traditional Han Taiwanese home, the adults spoke to me in Chinese idioms.  One expression, 隔靴搔癢 (phoneticized as gé xuē sāo yǎng), can be loosely interpreted as: “Failing to get to the heart of the matter” or even “nowhere near it“. Yet the literal translation of the words actually mean: “scratching an itch with the barrier of

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Mimi Young's hand reaches for Aura Care, a bottle of The Spell of Roses

Samhain Market Vancouver

Visit Mimi Young of Ceremonie this Saturday, October 28 from 7-10PM at @liquidambertattoo as part of the Art Social + Witches of Vancouver market event. The Skin + Aura Care will be available between 18-22% OFF, and it’s ONLY for this event, as well as my remaining Magick of Tea events for 2023 that such rad prices will be made available. 

Read More »
Portrait of Mimi Young and the Becoming Podcast logo on a beige background

Failure as a Confrontation with Death

Did you listen to my fun, rich, and wide-reaching interview Jessie Harrold of The Becoming Podcast? What we chatted about:⁣  Failure as a confrontation with death that ultimately makes us more human and divine⁣  How to suspend your disbelief and follow your intuition in a hyper-rational world⁣  Animism and working with tea as an ally⁣  How we clutch exogenous sources

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Not yet steeped oolong tea hovers over a gongfu style teapot, with two cups in the background. The image evokes a sense of inward thoughts.

Vertigo

The following poem below, originally titled Oversteeped Tea in May 2023, was first written for my blog and Substack, and then further edited and included in my limited edition artist’s book of poetry, A Tea Stronger Than Death: Poems of Hurt and Healing While On Sacred Buffalo Guardian Mountain. – Mimi Grief’s vertigo, softened by over-steeped Tea, takes me back

Read More »
An expansive image of mountain regions around Lake Louise (In the Stoney language of the Nakoda people the area is called Ho-run-num-nay, meaning "lake of the little fishes")

Tea Thoughts While On A Mountain

Some are new, some old, all have been on my mind (and body, and heart)… Obstacles are guided pathways, not roadblocks.  Nobody knows what they are really doing with their lives. When creating, “happiness” may actually indicate the comfortable and the already-done, and “discomfort” reveals vulnerability and possibilities. Anger signals a moment(s) when we recognize injustice and violation. Rage when

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A portrait of animist spirit medium and writer Mimi Young, wearing a cream cardigan and vermillion dress

In My Fantasies

In my fantasies, I’m smart, or at least, I can figure it out.I’m fun to be around.I like my body, and that she can do bendy, tip-toey, graceful things.I channel worthwhile ideas and things. My words matter. In my fantasies, I’m surrounded by friends, near and far, and that truly, they are always near. In my fantasies, I love myself,

Read More »
Appropriation or appreciation?

Nowhere Near It – 隔靴搔癢

Growing up in a traditional Han Taiwanese home, the adults spoke to me in Chinese idioms.  One expression, 隔靴搔癢 (phoneticized as gé xuē sāo yǎng), can be loosely interpreted as: “Failing to get to the heart of the matter” or even “nowhere near it“. Yet the literal translation of the words actually mean: “scratching an itch with the barrier of

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