02/03/2025
january 🎂
twas indeed a two of cups month 🏆🏆
so much dancing 💃🏻
and food that is healing my body
steak on day 2 🩸 is life-giving
33rd bday solo road trip 🚐
psilly 🍄 hike and song
hot springs surprise love 💗
fire ceremony release ❤️🔥
✨ hair ritual on wednesdays
4 potlucks!!! including one i hosted for my bday where we all made vision boards—can’t believe y’all came thru during a blizzard 🌨️ my dad made his first one ever 🥹
more potlucks and craft gatherings in 2025 plz! gluten-free pancakes for all!
3 books read 📚
📝 many pages journaled
four songs written 🎶
12” of hair exorcised ✂️ over the course of a week, it needed to go.
billy strings and salvaged water bottles with an oregon friend.
🪞 so much reflection 🪞
disclaimer: this is a highlight reel. not pictured: a mix of sweet, sour, spicy, and salty moments that i didn’t have my phone out for.
long story shortish: i’ve been a single woman now (by choice, obviously lol) for four years. i was in a 6-year relationship and a 7-year career that both helped shape my identity. they both ended in 2020. i fled to the oregon coast and isolated myself in an attempt to figure out: wtf just happened. when i did decide to return to colorado, i realized i’d never really lived a life of my own—a life independent of a partner or a physical business to anchor me—and i struggled at first, very much. the last six months have shown me how much love i have here. in the last two years of being back, i have built a life for myself that i love, that continues to evolve in exciting ways, that still contains a lot of uncertainty and instability—but the people. the people i have gathered around me and that have moved back too. father mother god, i am so thankful for these people. many more not pictured here, many who are not local. i am so grateful.
in times like these, joy, play, and connection feel like radical acts. i’m holding onto them, savoring them, and sharing them—because life is too precious to let the weight of the world steal our sweetness. we will need it in the days to come.