World Gratitude Day

  “Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.” —Henri Frederic Amiel

Today is World Gratitude Day let’s all be grateful for all that we are and all that we have even as we strive to be more do more and have more

Global #ClimateStrike

“The earth will survive, humans won’t.” – Catherine Constantinides

Today marks the beginning of the Global Climate Strike led by Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg (one girl’s protest has now become a global movement it’s beautiful to see) the planet is the one thing all of humanity shares and it’s our collective responsibility to care of it before it can no longer take care of us.  

Heaviness

Sometimes you’ve got to sit with the heaviness in your heart and soul– that’s what I’ve realized

Tonight my heart and soul are heavy for many reasons I cannot escape it so I’m going to embrace it.

Hope Over Fear

The most important choice you’ll ever make is the choice you make to choose hope over fear – that’s what I’ve realized

Today there’s a lot of things weighing on my heart but I’m choosing hope over fear   

This Season

There is a time for everything,
    and a season for every activity under the heavens:

    a time to be born and a time to die,

 – Ecclesiastes 3:2

This season of my life is teaching me about the impermanence of life I’m shocked and holding on to everyone I love knowing that it won’t matter how hard I hold on

Unexpected Departures

Expect the unexpected – that’s what I’ve realized

Yesterday i found out that my boys (the twins I love so much at the place of safety I often visit) have been removed from the place of safety into a cluster foster home without much warning and FOR NO REASON…after everything they have endured at the hands of their biological family they deserved to be happy instead they have been removed from the only place they have known and from the only people they have ever known I’m so heartbroken and sad