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if walls could talk... oh but they DO!🗣

if walls could talk... oh but they DO!🗣

There is a special magic in summer's simple pleasures—enjoying colorful, sweet stone fruits, being delighted by fireflies or shooting stars across the night sky, or savoring the wildflowers in our...

if walls could talk... oh but they DO!🗣

There is a special magic in summer's simple pleasures—enjoying colorful, sweet stone fruits, being delighted by fireflies or shooting stars across the night sky, or savoring the wildflowers in our...

did you know about the week between worlds?🌎

did you know about the week between worlds?🌎

Light is a crop we harvest and every June, nature gives us its richest yield. The Summer Solstice has passed, but summer has not yet fully unfolded. July and its...

did you know about the week between worlds?🌎

Light is a crop we harvest and every June, nature gives us its richest yield. The Summer Solstice has passed, but summer has not yet fully unfolded. July and its...

ode to fathers

ode to fathers

This golf photo is for my dad—a sport he loved. Who would I be if it weren’t for my beloved father? We didn't agree about his mother but my formative...

ode to fathers

This golf photo is for my dad—a sport he loved. Who would I be if it weren’t for my beloved father? We didn't agree about his mother but my formative...

peace🕊 & pride🌈

peace🕊 & pride🌈

Hope you’re enjoying June’s abounding, beautiful blossoms—testaments to peace and pride as necessary pillars of a meaningful life. Pride is the freedom to live authentically while peace speaks to the...

peace🕊 & pride🌈

Hope you’re enjoying June’s abounding, beautiful blossoms—testaments to peace and pride as necessary pillars of a meaningful life. Pride is the freedom to live authentically while peace speaks to the...

decoration🌺 sacrifice🕯& memorial♥️

decoration🌺 sacrifice🕯& memorial♥️

As we celebrate the unofficial start of summer, Memorial Day asks something deeper of us: remembrance.  What was originally known as Decoration Day, established in 1868 to honor fallen Civil...

decoration🌺 sacrifice🕯& memorial♥️

As we celebrate the unofficial start of summer, Memorial Day asks something deeper of us: remembrance.  What was originally known as Decoration Day, established in 1868 to honor fallen Civil...

embracing the promise of poppies♥️

embracing the promise of poppies♥️

Is it me or does it feel as though we are a nation in trauma? Burdened by economic uncertainty and strain, fractured by deep divisions, and exhausted by systems seemingly...

embracing the promise of poppies♥️

Is it me or does it feel as though we are a nation in trauma? Burdened by economic uncertainty and strain, fractured by deep divisions, and exhausted by systems seemingly...