wandering the world with a melody in my heart.

Our lives can easily turn into a waiting room for a future that never arrives. I've realized that maybe the truest gift we can give ourselves is to just breathe and find peace right here in this moment, instead of always asking our hearts to wait for the next destination to finally be happy.

Being a parent is like wearing your heart outside of your body. Then, after years spent nurturing, growing, protecting, keeping alive, letting that heart wander off on its own, into a world, we know, can do such harm to it. And all we can hope for, is that our heart calls home, updates us sometimes, with their stories, their safety, their happiness, their troubles. We can only wish that we will be asked to help mend that heart when needed, a job we have long trained in. Being a parent is like wearing your heart outside of your body, and knowing that's exactly where it's supposed to be.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around..!

Goals. There’s no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There’s no telling what you can do when you believe in them. And there’s no telling what will happen when you act upon them.

What does being beautiful mean to you?

We are often drawn to people who possess external beauty, but the individuals we truly cherish are those who make us feel appreciated and valued.

Sometimes, we meet someone who is physically attractive and are so drawn by their beauty that we wish to be a part of their life. But if we discover that this person is disrespectful and lacks mannerism, their external beauty diminishes, and they no longer appear beautiful to us.

Focus on external beauty and but be a good human by improving your actions and behaviour. While external beauty may attract others, being a genuine, respectful, and positive person will enable you to make others feel valued and foster lasting relationships.

Most people are convinced that as long as they are not overtly forced to do something by an outside power, their decisions are theirs, and that if they want something, it is they who want it. But this is one of the great illusions we have about ourselves. A great number of our decisions are not really our own but are suggested to us from the outside; we have succeeded in persuading ourselves that it is we who have made the decision, whereas we have actually conformed with expectations of others, driven by the fear of isolation and by more direct threats to our life, freedom, and comfort.

~Erich Fromm

Point Nemo is one of the most isolated places on the planet. It sits in the middle of the South Pacific Ocean, about 2,700 kilometers from the nearest bits of land. That makes it the spot on Earth farthest from any coastline.

Because of that distance, if you’re floating out there, you’re actually closer to the astronauts on the International Space Station, orbiting about 400 kilometers above you, than you are to any person on land.

It’s sometimes called the oceanic pole of inaccessibility, and the name Nemo comes from the Latin word for “no one.”

The area around it is so empty that the nearest “neighbors” are usually satellites and space debris re-entering the atmosphere, since the region is often used as a spacecraft graveyard.

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.

Under wisteria showers, she blossoms with quiet grace and soft wonder. ✨🌸