Someone once told me a story about long term relationships. 

To think of them as a continent to explore. 

I could spend a lifetime backpacking through Africa, 

and I would still never know all there is to know about that continent. 

To stay the course, to stay intentional, to stay curious and connected – that’s the heart of it. But it’s so easy to lose track of the trail, to get tired, 

to want to give up, or to want a new adventure. 

It can be so easy to lose sight of the goodness and mystery within the person 

sitting right in front of you.   

Joy Williams  

Monte Clerigo Beach

The point for me is to create relationships based on deeper and more real notions of trust. So that love becomes defined not by sexual exclusivity, 

but by actual respect, concern, commitment to act with kind intentions, 

accountability for our actions, and a desire for mutual growth.

 Dean Spade

Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars 

if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

If we don’t accept ourselves in our perfectly imperfect form, 

we can’t accept others in theirs. 

The more we love ourselves, 

the more loving our lens on the outside world.

 Jeff Brown

Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, 

doing something else, being someone else.

Isaac Asimov
                                                                                             

   

Happy Easter!

styling and design by Dietlind Wolf

styling and design by Dietlind Wolf

 by Dietlind Wolf

styling and design by Dietlind Wolf

What in your life is calling you,

when all the noise is silenced,

the meetings adjourned,

the lists laid aside,

and the wild iris blooms by itself

in the dark forest,

what still pulls on your soul?

Rumi