Worrying — thinking you can predict, circumvent, and prematurely solve for possible problems in your life and get all the outcomes you want — is a trick of the light, a desert mirage, a wanderer’s trap, a deception easily believed… but it isn’t real.

A reflection invitation: Grab your flashlights! Let’s go spelunking!

The values we have create reference for everything we do and everything that matters to us.

There just is no reason to NOT be kind. There is every reason TO be kind.

Excited to treat myself today! Giving myself a little extra.  Going out of my way for a dose of pleasure.  Something out of the ordinary for myself!

Sometimes we need a day in which time slows down and everything can be still. To be together and notice ourselves and each other more.

This is how we become resilient and strengthened and build the ability to weather hard times — because we are so full of and motivated by love.

Sometimes, when you’re in the hole and you don’t realize just how much, you start focusing on the wrong things.

I don’t want to reach the end of my life and feel I have stores of wasted potential within me; I am far more interested in living my story as well as I can along the way, to see what I am capable of and live the dreams, skills, and experiences I’m meant for.

As the learning curve begins…

Love your loved ones and be loved back, and let your dreams light up your heart with a burning love and your face with a bright smile.

Appreciation post for my Jake, inspired by a Jervis Campbell song.

Growing requires practice and time. The time is going to pass, no matter what, either way; and I can choose to add the practice into it. If we layer our time with practice for whatever is important to us, the matters of importance will grow and deepen.

On feeling a call towards creating space in my life so I can better be with myself and attend to what I’m learning and what I need. For whenever we need room and time to grow into things…

Life is a balance of struggles and joys and the whole range of experience in being human.

A magic list // ode to camping…

A riding experience that got me thinking about two key components to learning: challenge vs. wins, and practice.

There’s nothing to it: find a couple trees close enough together and far enough apart, just right, assess the view, attach the straps, hook up your hammock, sink in… and feel the magic begin.

Love strengthens us, emboldens us, gives us the will and way to be generous and brave and true. Love is the force magic flowing through all that’s within the universe, and love is the spark and creator of every good and perfect thing.

There is learning that feels fun and exciting, like novelty and delight, when you are engaged and happy, even while challenged…