Jessica Lynn

I tell everyone this and I mean it. Buy a journal. Carry it with you everywhere you go. And I mean everywhere. Write about your favorite moments, your least favorite moments, ideas, grocery lists, people you’ve met, strangers you’ve walked past on the street, favorite quotes, words to remember, what the sky looked like at 7pm, new songs you’ve discovered and what they mean to you, your childhood, places you want to go or places you’ve been, write about your passions, how you feel in this exact moment, draw out the mountains, scribble all over the pages. And when that one gets full, buy a new one. Reread it in 2 years, 20 years, when you need a good laugh, when you’re crying on your bathroom floor, read it to your children. You need to remember these moments in your life. They are so important.

A farmhouse not too far out of town, but just far enough so you don’t hear the traffic and you just hear the wind blowing through the acres of cornstalks, setting up a Fall celebration for all the families in the nearby town to come by, carve pumpkins, eat candy apples, and go through a corn maze right before it gets to dusk and the kids have to head back home to trick or treat.