connection

I can do fun and light for a little while, but what feeds my soul are the connections that can actively choose to hold the grief and lean into the joy completely .

Specificity signals attention and care.

To be close requires going out on a limb and asking for togetherness, despite the potential of rejection, abandonment, or carelessness. All friendship is a bargain of invisible effort and patience and time. Can I call you, will you pick up? Did you like the book I gave you? Where are you right now? There is no closeness without friction. Closeness... See more

That each person you meet offers you a mirror into parts of yourself that you may have never seen before. That the oxygen you breathe in was once exhaled through the stomata of a leaf on a tree that stood long before you were born and will continue to long after your death. Because it is these moments of wonder and connection that remind us of the... See more

i say this because i genuinely find beauty in everyone. not necessarily in a romantic sense, but in that soul-level kind of admiration. the kind that exudes from how someone tells a story, the pauses in their voice, the sparkle in their eyes when they talk about something they love. it’s in the way their words unknowingly reveal their own processes... See more