Mountain Mural
"Oh what a beautiful morning, oh what a beautiful day..." - Oklahoma!
Making my home -- and my life -- mine, one day at a time. Here's the tricky part: we have the illusion of time, which pacifies us into staying small, holding out, waiting a bit longer to fully embrace the life we are called to live. Things can change in an instant. We can wake up on a seemingly normal day and have our entire world shift beneath our feet.
Here's to living big, honoring our inner Knowing, painting the walls, using the good plates, daring greatly, being intentional with our time and energy, telling people how much they mean to us, and not taking any of this for granted. It won't be easy, but being all in is the greatest gift we can give this world and ourselves.
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Love
It can be so tempting to only present the polished, carefully crafted version of ourselves in an effort to be accepted. We want people to like us. We want people to stay. We spend our lives masquerading around while searching for someone who can see and love us as we are in spite of the masks that keep our true selves hidden...
Bloom where you are planted
This is a lesson I've been leaning into a lot lately. In life, there will always be things we cannot control -- things that uproot us from our comfort zones or that test how we define our happiness. And in the midst of those things we cannot change, we have a choice.
"You are worthy of love and belonging." - Brene Brown
A friend asked what advice I'd give to my younger self. While there are lots of things I'd tell the young me, the single biggest one would be this: allow yourself to believe that you are worthy of love and belonging -- and live according to your truth, unencumbered by this fear...