Life is as Magical as You Allow it to Be and Other Lessons from Kauai, Hawaii

life is as magical as you allow it to be. i did a yoga practice this morning and in savasana, the final resting pose, i thought about how this is the pose of integration. when all the movement and activity is done, you lie down. you rest. you allow the benefit of the practice to …

On Risk & Reward – Landing in Kauai, HI

I'm hungry. All I've eaten today is a tortilla with black beans which was very bland and disgusting, but sometimes it feels good to "rough it" for a while when the past two weeks you've been wining and dining in Napa Valley's Michelin star restaurants and Southern California's trendiest brunch spots by the ocean. I've …

a list – thoughts & feels

i bought a ticket to California while she's on fire because I do what my mom tells me to. why am i going into the flames? is it because I can then say I was reborn? what does that mean?i can’t wait to wear my t-shirt with mushrooms on it and oranges that look like …

sweet summer

last day of august last day of summer how do i characterize this summer? on saturdays - drives to the beach, making sure we got there before noon, being one of the "reduced capacity", grabbing our blue lawn chairs, walking past kites flying in the sky, wondering where they are tethered. they seem to be …

July Recap & August Intentions

Hi my loves, I'm feeling called to do a little heart spill july recap/ august intention setting post as I process all the shifts and beautiful miracles that occurred this past month. This month fleww byyyy and it was the first month since quarantine started that I really felt called to set intentions. I feel …

July Intentions – reading/donating/studying/creating

Happy July! I haven't felt called to do a monthly check in and post in a very long time. Quarantine got me in a strange state of feeling generally lost, purposeless, and questioning what I "should" be doing (and generally feeling like the world was stuck in time in Mid-March). After a beautiful couple weeks …

safe in the known – koh lipe, thailand

safe in the known I want to be able to transport people with my words and take them to far off places they’ve never been. I want them to experience fire shows on the shores of an island somewhere in Thailand and be able to picture the blue water with ease and the way it …

meditations on the qualities – poems

A series of poems inspired by J. Ruth Gendler's The Book of Qualities: Love Love drinks rose tea and likes to keep rose quartz crystals on her windowsill. She always has fresh cut flowers in vases and pays a lot of attention to the details. She makes her bed most days except when she’s been …

The Unexpected Gifts of Quarantine – a life update & what I think this time is about

Hi loves, I'm feeling the call to write. I woke up today late - I've been waking up around 8 am to do my morning pages, morning meditation, pulling my spirit cards, and yoga. But today, I woke up at 9:40 am, so I dragged myself out of bed, made some fresh celery juice and …

on truly learning presence in the age of a global pandemic

Hi my loves, These are interesting times. I wanted to write an honest blog post about my thoughts about everything that's going on because writing is the way I process so this is as much for me to figure out and spill over as it may be for you who are reading these words and …