Kimberly Naranjo Creative

09/05/2026

Presence.

09/04/2026

Daily practice 🙏🏻🙌🏻🥳🤞🏼☀️

09/04/2026

Keeping life interesting. And hopefully active

08/30/2026

08/25/2026

Good-bye Dolly 😢💛🙏🏻

08/12/2026

I can’t live without you. A drawing a day keeps the psychologist away forcing myself to make time, to break the silence, to trust the process, a part of my healing.

08/11/2026

I get asked the question all the time… Do you miss it? Oh the restaurants and the food vendors everywhere were always taunting me because I wasn’t able to eat any of the food!!! So being here now feels safer. I cook every meal with safe ingredients now and a then from what we grow in the yard. What I do really miss is all the art and having access to that every day. I also miss running in the city, there was so much to see!!! Running from my house to the East river then picking up the groceries on the way home. I also miss my friends!! Having an experience was priceless and I highly recommend everybody live in the city for at least 5 years! Being in Raleigh for six years has been wildly fast and living in Brooklyn for eight years was wildly slow. It’s slowed time to be there. It sped up to be here. Every single day was a challenge how I was going to get groceries how was I going to feed the family how to get from place to place.how I would breathe clean air and find nature.

08/03/2026

Recently estate sales have become a fun hobby for the weekends, drawn into seeing the inside of many different homes, the mystery and dopamine download of the hunt keeps us addicted to go often. I’m becoming more and more fascinated and interested in seeing how other people live, what they collect, how they change their environments to represent themselves in ways either in conformity or individualistically. How they hold dear artifacts from the past. I imagine what their daily lives must have been like.

07/28/2026

Mr Tom says “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, and the next best time is today.”

In 2010 I discovered how food is medicine. In 2020 I discovered the fragility of our modern industrialized food system. We moved to Raleigh and started a garden.

There is nothing more delicious than pulling a fruit off of a tree that you planted, that’s ripe and ready to eat! Your nervous system calms bc you know it has not been sprayed with chemicals, waxed or gas and wasn’t picked green. The flavor is unmatched and melts in your mouth, quite literally filling your heart with joy. Food was meant to bring this kind of calm abundant joy.

We planted it four years ago, and now, after developing roots, it’s fruiting for the first time!!

When you see a fruit in the store, it has traveled all across the United States, even from other countries wasting fossil fuels. There is no need for us to depend on a grocery store to provide us with fruit and vegetables, herbs and greens.

We are wasting our time our energy, taking care of grass when grass was always just a status symbol, saying to the general public that you have enough money to waste land.

We have been conditioned to believe that grass yards are beautiful.

I don’t know about you, but I hear from so many people that are all struggling and the food prices keep rising, keeping up with the mega-rich and not regular educated people who are working jobs.

Now that we have worked 6 years on the garden, a new passion has become sharing my art and garden hopefully inspiring others to do the same. If 2 out of 5 people did this there would be enough food for everybody.

When you plant a fruit tree, it takes up to four years before it bears fruit. Every year, you prune it back letting it develop a good root system. For trees are not hard to take care of. We have one pear tree one apricot tree, two peach trees, one serviceberry tree, one fig tree one Asian pear tree and we’re going to be adding at least 4 more trees that bare fruit. We grow cabbage, broccoli, kale, tomatoes, Swiss chard, peppers, and so much more.