finding beauty in the everyday


  • Be Patient

    Be patient towards all that is unsolved in your heart and try to learn to love the questions themselves. – Ranier Maria Rilke

  • The Gift of Mail

    I recently arrived home to find a small, salmon notice from the post office in my mail box. It informed me that I had a package waiting, but that I had to pay $3.77 in postage to pick it up. Under comments it just said “green wallet”. As I actually thought might happen, a nice…

  • Freshman Lawn

    She looked around the area known as “freshman lawn” and knew she had to do something different or she wouldn’t make it through her sophomore year of high school. For the previous year she’d endured the lawn, continuing to attend class when friends began to ditch, never joining to get high in the parking lot,…

  • Pears Pears Pears

    Pears Pears Pears A link to 15 fantastic recipes using the pears that are falling off trees this time of year.