For the last year, I have been praying and dreaming up what it might look like to combine my love for photography and my heart for empowering women.
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Speak truth…even if nobody else listens.
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I hit a wall this past summer. We were nearing the end of our 7-week stay at our tiny house in the mountains of North Carolina, which although lovely, had been a jam-packed schedule of manual labor projects we desperately wanted to finish before returning to Texas.
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I am going to share something with you that is giving me a lot of freedom these days.
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I can still smell the wet buttery popcorn as we usher ourselves down dim lit aisles and settle into a nook of four empty seats.
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"When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping. '" - Mr. Rogers
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I was told once that we should speak to ourselves like our own best friend.
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How are you doing? Have you asked yourself lately? If I’m being honest things have been a bit of a rollercoaster in these parts.
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Heated debates, political turmoil, another wave—It’s been a week. Heck, it’s been a year. I don’t think anyone would refute that claim. Thankfully this blog is not about any of those things. Which is how we found ourselves, two days before a presidential election, clinking glasses to Ella Fitzgerald at an intimate Jazz Age Murder Mystery in my parents’ cozy home.
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I bet if I asked you to close your eyes and picture the tastes and smells of your childhood, you would be able to recall in vivid detail
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I am a mother of two beautiful, vibrant teen girls. With their eyes down, looking at their phones, they don’t see the people around them.
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Home is both the place I don’t want to leave and the place I know I must leave if I’m going to live a full, abundant life.
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“Daddy, what are they doing?” Cyrus asked from the gray steps of my parents’ porch as protestors marched past chanting the words, “I can’t breathe.”
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If you guys will join me, I want to give some shout outs. If someone you know has been a leader, a happy face, an encourager, a giver, or in any form just shown to be the kind of person we should aspire to be, give them a shout out on here.
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We don’t always realize what we are missing when we are content with what’s in front of us.
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I would be such a good gardener. I’ll take any excuse to soak up the warm sunshine. I don’t even mind the watering. I would be such a great gardener if I could only manage to keep my plants alive.
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These are the things I am doing to stay grounded, to lean into the season and come out all the better for it.
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Tomorrow I turn 28. Right about now would be the appropriate time to make a “30 before 30” list. You know, 30 things I want to see or do before I hit a new decade. Instead, I decided to recount some of the things I’ve already seen and done as sort of a tribute to getting older.
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Throughout the movie, a running theme is “choose your race and then you run”. This has become sort of a mantra for me as I’m rounding the corner to begin the next lap.
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I want to be fully alert to this life, sucking it dry, leaving nothing left. But in the process of all the “yeses” and checked boxes and travel itineraries, I need a groundedness…
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