I had heard about larches before but this year was the first time I experienced them firsthand...
Read MoreAs time passed, I've come to see Bend for what she truly was: a sanctuary, a place of profound surrender, safety, and courage.
Read MoreCuriosity is not *necessarily* the easy path forward.
Read MoreWhen you travel, you leave home as one person and come back another. Versions of yourself are left all over the globe, sometimes they are left in the sand in Mexico, left in a book in Rome, or left on a mountaintop in Japan.
Read MoreMy two favorite months of the year.
Read MoreGone are the days of seeing as much as I can as fast as I can.
Read More“If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.” ― Oscar Wilde
Read MoreThe sun is still shining but the promise of change feels imminent.
Read MoreBeing in Boston brings me back. Back to a time when I lived in Washington DC…
Read MoreWhat gets me out the door is the sweet promise of the unknown.
Read MoreI can feel the weights slipping off my shoulders and my breathing slow.
Read MoreWhen I think of patterns in nature, I'm blown away by their beauty. I'm in awe that nature could create something so special.
Read MoreIt keeps us alive, but can also keep us from living.
Read More“You are so beautiful and so smart, and it kills me that you don’t think you’re good enough. Like, we have to always be extraordinary, but somehow we’re always doing it wrong.”
Read MoreI didn't think about the food I was eating because I was focused on the moments, the celebrations, and the shared experiences solidified through sharing meals. But as the weeks passed and my happiness became a consistent hum and an unwavering new normal, my "seamless" relationship with food and my body that I had gotten used to started to take on some of its old habits
Read MoreThis is one of my favorite photos of the summer so far...
Read More"I feel like you have entered a new era."
Read MoreTo those who have not just seen the darkness, but have felt its cold, comforting grasp on their skin.
Read MoreI fell asleep at the wheel… Listing and veering from anything that remotely resembled a road I wanted to be on.
Read MoreI wish I could show you the way I feel inside.
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