“Make the moment vital and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.” ~Martha Graham
Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
Pacific Ocean, Santa Barbara
“Loneliness is still time spent with the world.” ~Ocean Vuong
Building Art, Nashville, TN
“You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth.” ~Louise Erdrich
Pumpkins, St. Louis
“When you live in a world/Well it gets in to who you thought you’d be/And now I laugh at how the world changed me/I think life chose me/After all ” ~Dar Williams
Pansy in the Rain, St. Louis
“You are the deep innerness of all things, the last word that can never be spoken.” ~Rainer Maria Rilke
Promenade des Anglais, Nice, France
“There are ways to be wounded and ways to survive those wounds, but no one can survive denying their own needs.” ~CJ Hauser
Cyclamen
“Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.” ~Michelle Obama
Garden Feature, Nassau, Bahamas
“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.” ~Pema Chodron
Rooftop, Los Angeles
“Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you learned it.” ~Maya Angelou
Soho, Manhattan
“I write to explore all the things I’m afraid of.” ~Joss Whedon