Just a little reminder that I love you and I see the little ways you’re trying to help and do better in the face of seemingly unbearable circumstances. I hope you got a dopamine today as a treat.

Farewell 2024. You have been so bold in challenging and beautiful ways. Some of least favorite and most favorite moments yet. It has taken a while for me to make peace with that contrast. For 2025 I hope to consistently seek out more joy and play in the midst of the sadness.

This morning I’m feeling the bitter sweetness of planning our own holiday traditions separate from family. There is joy in the freedom of choice and creativity even though sadness is there too. I’m looking forward to more lights and cookies and music and crafts and connection.

It feels really special to have a working environment that fills me up more than it takes away. Aligning myself to a life that fits my needs has been a wild ride and still has a lot of challenges, but I’m closer and that is giving me the energy to keep going.

Cozy day off. Good day for music and laundry. These are actions of self love I try to remind myself fill me up more than they take from me even though my mind would like to say otherwise right up until it is happening. I love you. I hope you are finding love for yourself and joy when possible.

Today I feel joy for the warm bath I get to wake up to and the job I get to go to most days. It really is peak joy to be amongst such magical women.
Today I also feel sadness. For the world, for fractured connection, for our future. One in each hand.

Today feels more peaceful. Nothing like being around a 5 year old with boundless creative energy to wake you up in the morning and remind you to play.

Today I feel deep sadness. It’s something that lives with me a lot of the time. It comes up when I cannot reconcile the incongruous nature of the beauty and the suffering of life. And especially over the holidays as it brings up mourning of the times I and so many others wish they had. I love you.

Well here I am. I think it might be nice to connect in a space where my audience is a little more limited than FB and I am going to use this as a place to be more vulnerable. Thanks for being here and wanting to connect. 💗