Dear Fall Break, YOU ARE HERE! Thank you for annually giving me the time to play, step back, recharge, and refocus for the last eight weeks of the semester. I am grateful for you. Dear Twinner, I like getting texts from you at 11 pm asking if we've ever gone to Chuck-e-Cheese. Your sense of curiosity blesses me. (My answer: maybe?) Dear Blue Ridge Parkway, I've found myself climbing your mountains these past eight weeks more often than I ever thought I would. Thank you for your colors, wind, clouds, overlooks, randomly placed bathrooms, and hills. Dear Autumn, welcome to Western North Carolina. I hope you stay for a while. Dear Maya Angelou, thank you for teaching about caged birds. Caro Mamma, ti amo, ti amo, ti amo. Thank you for your phone calls, for sending me tomatoes from our garden, and your joie de vivre. Don't stop calling. Dear Tupelo, you are as sweet as the honey you are named after. Thanks for keeping me company this weekend. With love for you, thoughts of lentils, and gratitude for new friendships,
Michy #CHALLENGEALERT: This week write a letter to someone you miss, someone you love, someone you haven't spoken to in a while, or just someone and send it to them! I'm sure it will make them smile :) "What is home? My favorite definition is “a safe place,” a place where one is free from attack, a place where one experiences secure relationships and affirmation. It’s a place where people share and understand each other. Its relationships are nurturing. The people in it do not need to be perfect; instead, they need to be honest, loving, supportive, recognizing a common humanity that makes all of us vulnerable." ~Gladys Hunt from Honey for a Child's heat This weekend I spent time in the mountains with my Aunt Patti and Uncle Rob.
Together we: climbed the highest peak east of the Mississippi ate delicious potatoes at (almost) every meal sampled local brews discovered new Asheville area favortie: restaurants, street performers, book stores, and wine contemplated buying motorcycles and took pictures of our feet. I'm grateful for the time I was given with them this weekend! What did you do this weekend? All my love and more, Michelle Today I spent my afternoon climbing trees and picking crab apples to make cider.
I am blessed. <3 Michelle Last night my dear friend Molly pulled her car over to watch the sun set on September. I'm grateful for her wonder otherwise I would have missed it.
I woke up this morning not even realizing it was October or that September had past. I'm remiss that time and I are moving so quickly without any promise of slowing down, but I welcome this new month as a new beginning. This month I'm looking forward to: Homecoming weekend Fall Break (!!!!!!) Orange Leaves Cool mornings Bonfires Community building Working outside Camping Cinnamon coffee and long hikes in the woods What are you looking forward to this month? All my love and more, Michy "Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary." ~Henry David Thoreau Last night I camped out under the stars on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Even though it was cold the sunrise was worth it.
Montibus in claris semper vivida fides (Faith is vigorous in the clear mountains) <3, Michelle “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” -Albert Camus Happy autumn, lovlies! I hope this seasons brings you many opportunities to play in the leaves and pick delicious apples! All my love,
Michy <3 Happy Saturday, dear ones! In an effort to motivate myself out of bed this morning and to share sweet words that have inspired me I've put together a post of my favorite quotes, posts, and the like from recent days. I hope you enjoy!
"Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary." ~Henry David Thoreau Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front "The sun is perfect and you woke this morning. You have enough language in your mouth to be understood. You have a name, and someone wants to call it. Five fingers on your hand and someone wants to hold it. If we just start there, every beautiful thing that has and will ever exist is possible. If we start there, everything, for a moment, is right in the world." ~Warsan Shire "You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free." ~Thich Nhat Hanh "The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention." ~Rachel Naomi Remen "You were created to bear and endure, oh Patient One" ~a portion from a Ba'hai prayer "Any activity done with love and perseverance is a spiritual practice." "A warrior feeds her body well. She trains it, works on it. Where she lacks knowledge, she studies. But above all, she must believe in her strength of will and purpose and heart and soul." ~David Gemmel Happy weekend, brave ones. You. made. it. Be a brave warrior today, Michy <3 Recently, my friend Ayla challenged me to list out (I'm extending this to others forms of literature) that have stuck with me over the years. SO if I had been able to lay in bed this weekend these are the books I probably would have chosen to read (in no particular order):
1) A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway 2) The Importance of Being Ernest by Oscar Wilde 3) The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 3) Sonnet on Approaching Italy by Oscar Wilde 4) This is Water by David Foster Wallace 5) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 6) "Wild Geese" by Mary Oliver 7) anyone lived in a pretty how town by e.e. cummings 8) Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton 9) Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 10) Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry An odd list for sure (and a little Oscar Wilde heavy) but these are the writings that of have stuck with me in recent years and I could definitely add a few more if I had to. What are some of your favorite reads? Tell me in the comments below! Happy Saturday, friends! Michelle And there will come a time, you'll see, with no more tears.
And love will not break your heart, but dismiss your fears. Get over your hill and see what you find there, With grace in your heart and flowers in your hair. |
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