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I love this picture of me. Not because it’s a pe

I love this picture of me. Not because it’s a perfect picture, because it isn’t. I often think that people dislike pictures of themselves because it’s a frozen moment in time, with a fake smile and a posed expression, and they aren’t able to see themselves the way other people see them: their personality, their realest and truest smile, their kindness and compassion, the essence of who they are.

I love this picture because it captures, just for a moment, joy in action. Probably because I’d just found a grove of aspen trees, but also because of pure enjoyment of being out in the woods with my favorite DJ.

I must have accidentally taken this picture becaus

I must have accidentally taken this picture because I just found it in my camera roll, but I kinda dig it. Blurry and unfocused but sunny and happy regardless.

You know that feeling when you’re tired but not sleepy? That’s where I’m at now. And it’s usually when my brain decides to remind me about all the things I’ve done wrong, in the history of ever. Normally listening to a mediation on the Encounter app (highly recommended!) will set me right but it’s just not doing it tonight. So I’m trying to make a mental list of good things instead. I’d love to hear what’s good in your life, too!

Me, stepping onto the beach in Hawaii: “ooh! The

Me, stepping onto the beach in Hawaii: “ooh! The very first time I came to Hawaii I found a heart-shaped rock. Wouldn’t it be cool if God gave me another one this time?”

I glanced down, and what should I see, but a heart-shaped rock. But I am human with a tiny brain, so my mind went something like this: “oh, what a coincidence! And it’s coral, which grows in branches. I bet there’s a lot of heart-shaped corals around.”

I glanced down again. And God was like: “fine. Here’s an actual rock, okay?”

Okay. So I made up the “and God said” part. I didn’t actually hear him say anything. The older I get, the more I hesitate to put words in God’s mouth. But the fact remains I DID find an actual rock, in that exact moment. Make of that what you will.

But personally? Personally, I think God gave me a heart-shaped rock and a beautiful moment out of pure love. 💗 It was a pretty perfect moment, tbh, and it sure felt like it had God’s fingerprints all over it.

#liveinspired #liveauthentic #liveinthemoment #maui #perfectmoment #oceans

Marrying him was, and I quote, “the best fun cho

Marrying him was, and I quote, “the best fun choice” and so many other bests. 😉 Here we are in a submarine.

June, day 21 // THIRTY-FOUR tried to be glamorous

June, day 21 // THIRTY-FOUR

tried to be glamorous but the wind did a number on my hair and here we are, wind blown and happy and still the same dorky, hopeful romantic I ever was. Feeling all the feels on my 34th birthday.

Credit to my #instahubby for the photo 💗

JUNE 2 // this month I will This prompt makes me

JUNE 2 // this month I will

This prompt makes me think of resolutions — those overachieving ones you make at the start of each new year, even if you tell yourself you won’t, and even if you never speak them aloud, so that it won’t really count when you inevitably fail. I don’t have any sort of grand, overarching theme for this month. Alas. But here are a few things I’d like to pay attention to—a few things I want more of:

-more reading, less scrolling
-more hydration
-more stillness; more slowing down
-more laughter? maybe? life has felt so awfully serious.
-more random moments on Instagram. I’m tired of the pressure of only posting the perfect, most carefully curated moments on social. Remember the good old days when we’d slap on a vignette filter on a blurry, sub-par photograph of something random and call it good? Perhaps I’ll pass on the vignetting (is that even a word?) but YES to more random photographs.
-maybe get back into therapy? (I mean, isn’t therapy just the best? It’s a whole hour to just talk about feelings. Glorious.)

#onedaymay #onedayjune #adayinjune #summer #arizona

June 1: start with a selfie Okay, so I’m riffin

June 1: start with a selfie

Okay, so I’m riffing off of @laura.tremaine’s #onedaymay challenge. I skipped May but hey, it’s a fresh month and a fresh start. AND it’s my birthday month, so I’m definitely starting out with a surfeit of optimism.

So hi! It’s me. It’s June first and the temp just broke the triple-digits—it was 102° in Anthem today! Welcome summer.

The challenge is to go where the prompt takes you, so...here’s where it’s taking me:

I miss Colorado. I miss aspen groves and Bhakti chai and snow-capped mountains on the horizon. I miss breweries and beer mustard and familiar drives and familiar faces and thunderstorms. I miss my backyard and that (glorious!) pergola. I miss lilacs.

There’s so much I miss. But missing something isn’t a negative emotion. It just means that you loved, and that is a positive. Or even just that something was familiar. It’s been a work in progress, untangling my identity from being “a Colorado girl.” 😅

All of the above said, I have zero regrets. I know that we made exactly the right decision in moving here - honestly, Jesus took the wheel, if I may. 😄 I’m falling a little more in love with Arizona every day. 🧡💛🤎 Sometimes desert skies feel like freedom, and gosh if those warm evenings aren’t to die for.

#onedayjune #onedayatatime #arizona
#knowyourglow

If you forget a book on the airplane You’ll get

If you forget a book
on the airplane
You’ll get a broken tv screen
and your phone battery will die
and there’s no plug
And you’ll have an exit row - which is an incredible blessing; all that glorious leg room - but because it’s an exit row there won’t be a window
And the sky mall magazine has gone digital
and you can’t read it on your broken tv screen
and your seat won’t recline
and you’re wearing a mask
and there’s no snacks
and it will be the longest flight ever

so for reals though, don’t forget your airplane book. Bring several, just in case.

(it turns out okay in the end because you will in fact make it home and promptly sleep for thirteen hours.)

The best sign of a good time is like ZERO photos f

The best sign of a good time is like ZERO photos from it ‘cause it’s all about living in the moment! 🤙🏻 The weekend confirmed what we all suspected — a Blesener wedding is seriously one heck of a party! 🥳🥳

(PS gotta say DJ’s a heckin’ good photog. This might be my favorite picture of myself ever. but I’m turning into a pumpkin as we speak. home is best.)

I feel like a poem, I told DJ tonight(two nights a

I feel like a poem, I told DJ tonight(two nights ago), and what is a poem but an attempt to express a feeling without a point?

he wordlessly held my hand a little tighter and i looked up at the stars and it was then I realized, maybe the feeling is the point. we might very well just be little houseplants with complicated emotions, but maybe the emotion is what separates us from the houseplant. and I took a breath of salt-scented air and listened to the waves softly lapping the shore and if it could all just be exactly what it was, maybe so could I, even if just for tonight.

(the ocean makes me feel more fourish, and don’t @ me. I know this falls apart eventually but it’s where I was.)

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