Let’s talk about fear. They say that you should do one thing, every day, that scares you. So here I am posting this video to my Instagram. My instinct is to pretend that this doesn’t exist, to quietly practice & never show anyone. Because I need more time, to look better, to be better. I’m not good enough right now. I’ll be good enough in the future. I’ll wait. Right?…
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5 Questions for Reflection
Read moreHappy Monday, friends. I hope that you had a beautiful weekend. With Thanksgiving behind us and Christmas right around the corner, the time for reflecting is upon us. It’s the perfect time to take stock of all that has happened in the year behind us…
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Actually, I can.
Read moreFor the past year and a half, I was stuck. I had one foot in the past and one foot in the future. I may as well have been standing knee deep in a vat of solid concrete. I could not move. Sure, in my…
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Of All The Things My Hands Have Held…
Read moreWhen my children look back on their childhood, my greatest hope is that they will remember the magic that I have worked so hard to create for them. “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales.” “For all the things my…
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A Spring Plague, Blossoms, and New Endings
Read more“We cannot start over, but we can begin now, and make a new ending.” It’s been an interesting couple of weeks. Spring started to bloom and then a cold wave came in. It killed most of the early spring flowers and blossoming trees. It was…
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Hope Floats
Read moreIn recent years, I’ve begun to think of autumn as “berry season.” So many of the bushes and trees that we pass on our walks come to life in September with bundles of the most gorgeous, juicy berries in all colors. I took this set…
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portraits 03 // roman + marina
Read more“Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, “Do it again”; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough…
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A life you’re proud of…
Read moreFor what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can…
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Homemaking: The Bedroom
Read moreAs I mentioned here, one of my goals for 2014 is simplicity + organization. I am slowly making my way through each room in the house — getting rid of what we don’t need/use, organizing the necessities, and making things pretty. Over the weekend, I…