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ran cold water through my hair this morning, now short & light once again. i feel refreshed, anew. my feet begged for a return to this place where i currently reside, a city that encourages stopping to smell each passerby rose. & so i allow the sweet, melancholic aroma to fill my nostrils, as i pause to admire that of which aids in my remembering that i am nothing more than a mere speck in the grand landscape of this enterprise - introduced to us as life. & so i learn to trust in the place that grounds me & holds me with tenderness - returning me to my body and inner self. each day is a reminder that home is the dirt that gathers underneath my fingernails, it's the feeling of connection that ruminates in the heart - that asks for you to cling on and not let go. & so i trust and surrender to the map that has already been laid before me with such sweetness & intention. i will forever reside among the trees.

i close my eyes & am flooded by messages from the most high. i am told that love is the vessel & frequency through which i am invited to see - to greet, to encounter. & so i set forth - not for material possessions, or for a mere dollar bill, nor to obtain the power that many seek. for i tie my shoelaces each day & smile big for the elderly woman with the kind soul using a walker at the grocery store. to the human with the curly red hair & the tattoo of a bumblebee:
i compliment & affirm you because you deserve it.

what a challenging and heartbreaking world to live into, where the mundane & ordinary is seen as less than. for when i think about the injustices in our world, i am depleted for those who are owed so much more than they receive here. what gives me faith, though, are the little moments of the sacred that continue to shine through the cracks. for at my dinner table after a long & full day, I pause before eating for a brief moment to thank the farmers hands for the fruit of their labor - to receive these nutrients that have been brought to me. allow the journey to stretch you & feel all the things you can't bear to think about. you will wake with a newfound identity that will shape and mold your very existence. bliss will find you <3