Last week I wrote you about my simple little grounding practice. How I lay my hand on my heart and whisper to myself, “I’ve got you. You’re safe with me.” Well! Since then, all week, I’ve been noticing all the places in my life where this isn’t quiiiiite true. I’ve been seeing all the little […]

It’s wild times here in my heart. For you too, maybe. We had the most joyous trip last weekend, and happy times with friends, and magenta streaks in my hair, AND– life feels like a blender. If you’re feeling scattered and overwhelmed and life is swirling SO fast and your brain feels like molasses, you’re […]

These tiny snippets of daphne are an absolute marvel to me. Not just because they smell so impossibly, absurdly, WILDLY good. Although, swoon: the fragrance is out of the world, unreasonably joyful, exuberantly ecstatic, like lemons having a honeysuckle orgasm. They smell so good that I’m carrying my little bunch around the house with me and […]

Dearheart. Did you know that I’ve been sending this missive since 2011? Ten years. And I haven’t missed a single week. So it feels momentous– scandalous– to say this. I’m going on sabbatical from this weekly missive for at least a month or two. I’ll miss you so much– how vividly I hold you in my mind as I write, […]

Hello dear kindred spirits, oh you of the Big Feelings and tender heart. You with the big dreams and the thin skin. You with the wild gifts and the wild longings. I’m thinking about you in this season. How you might be feeling just the tiniest bit floored and overwhelmed and scattered and bewildered and […]