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“Use what you have, use what the world gives you. Use the first day of fall: bright flame before winter's deadness; harvest; orange, gold, amber; cool nights and the smell of fire. Our tree-lined streets are set ablaze, our kitchens filled with the smells of nostalgia: apples bubbling into sauce, roasting squash, cinnamon, nutmeg, cider, ...
...i write because other writers’ words changed my life a million and one ways, and i want to be a part of that. i began writing because there were things i wanted to say with so much urgency and soul i would have climbed a tower and shouted them down, would have written them in skywriting, ...
i want you to gobble life up in huge bites, tasting everything, trying every new flavor, remembering every smell and texture like it's the best thing you've ever had. i want you to live with wide and gorgeous abandon, throwing yourself into each day, telling the truth about who you are and who you are ...
what people are craving isn't perfection. people aren't longing to be impressed, they are longing to feel like they're home. if you create a space full of love and character and creativity and soul, they'll take off their shoes and curl up with gratitude and rest, no matter how small, no matter how undone, no ...
i want to cultivate a deep sense of gratitude, of groundedness, of enough, even while i'm longing for something more. the longing and the gratitude, both. i'm practicing believing that God knows more than i know, that he sees what i can't, that he's weaving a future i can't even imagine from where i sit ...
every life tells a story, through words and actions and choices, through our homes and our children, through our clothes and dishes and perfumes. we each play a character in a grand drama, and every single direction matters. we tell our stories, and we let God's story be told through our stories. we hide and ...
friendship is acting out God's love for people in tangible ways. we were made to represent the love of God in each other's lives, so that each person we walk through life with has a more profound sense of God's love for them. friendship is an opportunity to act on God's behalf in the lives of the ...
there is a totally finite amount of time and energy that each of us have to give to the people in our lives. you can give yours to your home team. or you can spend it haphazardly on an odd collection of people who need something from you, largely because you don't want to say ...
i don't know where you are these days, what's broken down and what's beautiful in your life this season. i don't know if this is a season of sweetness or one of sadness. but i'm learning that neither lasts forever. there will, i'm sure, be something that invades this current loveliness. that's how life is. ...
share your life with the people you love, even if it means saving up for a ticket and going without a few things for a while to make it work. there are enough long lonely days of the same old thing, and if you let enough years pass, and if you let the routine steamroll ...
shawna leeann rivera
san diego-based style blogger and twin mom to henry & delilah. curator of simple, affordable fashion. lover of my husband, family, coffee, traveling, and the bravo network.