there’s something about letting the summer sun warm your skin after a long, cloudy week that just changes your perception on things. not in some gravely drastic way that influences the pieces of your character or anything like that, but the rays soften the world around you — or maybe, just maybe, they soften you,…
Tag: self worth
ragged, still-beating, beautiful, broken
please be gentle with this ragged heart.it’s broken down & tired, but begging to restart.to find somewhere soft to land, steadied & humbled,& ready to guard it, as this dear heart can be so troubled. please be kind to this still-beating heart.i know it looks bruised & battered, but i’d prefer to consider it art.handle…
enough.
the world tries to tell you that your enough isn’t satisfactory. that you must give everything, & then give a little more, because your everything doesn’t equal out to another’s. the world forces you to blink your eyes open, open before the sun has even peeked over the horizon, because there simply isn’t enough time…
returnings
it has been a long couple of months. i feel like it’s only when i’m leaving a place that things begin to move & change rapidly. i fear that i will miss some of the greatest memories here in san francisco, while i will be making them in my hometown with people who’ve known me…
a hallway conversation
we will write love on these walls.simply put: we will inscribe all of our hopes & dreams into the four walls of this dwelling place. no shame, no fear in our longings. only support & manifestation in this home.harder to do: we will inscribe these hopes into our inner-most beings, onto our very souls–until our…
the strict “shit happens” policy
though it should tell you so in the title, this shit is about to get expletive. so, i arrived in california yesterday morning & i’ve spent my first full day as a san francisco resident. so, of course i want to write about what i’ve been thinking & such, because today, on my accidental prowl…
the attention we all crave
it never hurts to feel noticed, right? i recently posted a picture of myself on instagram (inserting a shameless plug to my insta here), and i realized that a lot of the validation in how pretty i felt in that photo came from how many likes and comments i received on the picture, rather than…