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Allowing for Magic

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Jonathan and I are in the last few months of living apart before we get married in late summer and make our home together. And so I feel like we are not fully in one place, we’re half here and half there. The studio I live in is darling and cozy, but it is small. There’s a bed and a table and one comfy chair in the corner. So we end up splitting our time between our places, and in this time of staying home during the COVID-19 lockdown, my sense of ‘home’ is already in this state of change and transition. As someone who is keenly and sometimes painfully aware of my surroundings and how I feel in them, this being-in-two-places-at-once feels unsettling and exhausting. So it is a practice in remembering what home really is and how to cultivate that feeling in my body no matter where we are. And as I also enter my last month of being 29, this season feels like a cathartic stripping away of the last decade of my life, allowing me to move forward with freedom into my 30s, into marriage, into a new home, into new ways of being, into new vision. I’m sure many of you are also navigating your own kinds of transitions during this isolating time. Just remember that any kind of transition is scary and foreign, but it can also be liberating and full of strange and beautiful energy. Try to trust where it is carrying you.

Rally around the things that matter to you, and notice what falls away.

Happy Spring Equinox, friends! The equinox is like the moment of weightlessness you feel during a jump. Suspended briefly, free from gravity for just a second. It is cold and grey and wet in Minnesota, so I am feeling more contemplative than celebratory right now, but it feels like a good day to water your seeds: Make an online purchase from a small business you want to support. Donate to a local food shelf. Send your loved ones a message. Give a little love and nurturing to yourself and those around you. Notice the areas of your life where there is abundance. Sending you all lots of love. ❤️

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