{out for a snowy, cold walk with ben and isaac}
{fresh haircut; i still cut my own hair. i have for 8 years.}
{good words and coffee, always and ever.}
{more snow, more sunshine. i document the sunny days . . . }
{purple, purple, and more purple birthday gifts for my sister. she is one of my february people.}
{evening light and some favorite knick-knacks}
{winter blues - working on chasing them away with fruit and exercise and a few go-rounds in the tanning bed}
{more good words and coffee. and chocolate.}
{more chocolate - find the recipe to this invention on my instagram.}
hello my friends,
and hello to this space.
i have been remembering when i used to feel terrible for missing one day of blogging . . . i posted pictures and wrote something almost every day for the first years of this blog . . . as life has moved along, my posting has become every more sporadic . . . and now, i have missed a full month . . . nothing from me here in january.
that certainly doesn't mean that nothing is happening! i do post something on instagram most days - little snippits and tidbits and bits of sunshine. and that link should work whether you have an instagram account or not. and i am telling myself that it is ok that i have not blogged so regularly over the past few years.
but! i am also reminded of how much i really do love to blog. the act of taking pictures and choosing pictures to share is good for my mind, my heart, and my soul. the act of putting words together and publishing them is also so good for my mind, my heart, and my soul.
i am joining 30 days of lists for the month of march. i will be writing in a beautiful journal that my mom made for my birthday last year, i will be posting on instagram, and i will blog here. every day. in march. as a gift to myself.
there will be coffee and treats, sunshine and grey skies, joy and certainly some bumps in the road, realness and rawness, gentleness and fierceness, evenings at home and evenings on the road, words read and words written, music and laughter, conversations and silence, hugs and kisses, and so many bits that make up a month - so many bits that will make up the month where exactly mid-way, i will turn from 38 to 39 - the month in which i will make a list of 40 things to do before i turn 40 (with a nod to a friend of mine who is ticking off her 40 before 40 - and that seems like fun!).
so - friends, here's to 30 days of pictures and writing.
go gently, love fiercely, and be wonderful.
love, e