Cuddles with Puppy the ball python “The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.” — Barack Obama It [...]
Autumn and the feeling of ending
The last few months, my blog has lain fallow. I have had nearly no time for creating and dreaming. I have been surviving and I won’t belittle myself for this (and I hope if this is you too, that you give yourself a nice warm hug for doing the hard work of surviving). This has [...]
Your road map is already inside you.
When I was at one of my lowest points in 2020, I received a journal from a friend. The journal had a quote inside that made me cry when I read it. It said, "You are not broken. You are already whole." I held that journal to my chest and wailed like a child. That [...]
“Journaling just won’t work for me.”
At least, that’s what I said anytime it came up. I had so many notebooks at home. All of them were beautiful. Many of them were gifts. Writers write. I should write in them….but I couldn’t. Oh. That one is too pretty to write in. What do I even have to say? But the biggest [...]