A note Thomas left for me this morning:
We were young parents with so much inside still to explore. While I would not change that in any way ever as our children are the most beautiful thing that I/we have ever created or can dream to, there is still that sense of unexplored territory inside our guts. It's in there dying to get out. It is time to let it out. Let it sing and dance and run free. We can do this. We can smile and support and cry and feel. It is time.
I just updated my website. My heart pounding, I hit "publish." Alive and unsure. (But mostly really, really sure, and alive.)
And I'm not kidding. The second I hit "publish" the doorbell rang. My doorbell never rings. Even the UPS guy just opens the door. It's that kind of house here.
So I immediately think it's someone trying to sell something.
But when I open the door it's a friend of my Dads.
"Good morning," he says. "I brought him this," he tells me and hands out a stack of papers.
"Do you want me to go get my Dad?" I ask.
"No. I'm in a hurry. I just wanted to drop this off."
I take the packet of paper.
"I hear you are doing really great things with your art, " he says.
My eyes still ache from all the crying I did this morning. I say nothing. I smile.
"That's important you know," he tells me. "What you're doing is important."
When I close the door behind me and look at what I'm holding, the words on the cover punch me right in the guts.
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." -Helen Keller
Also, yesterday I was visited by an owl, and a deer.
Go ahead. Give yourself the gift of creative freedom and expression this Holiday season. I promise, you deserve it.
Registration opens December 17th. These classes always fill up super duper fast, so mark your calendar and set a reminder. You are totally worth it.
"Our souls divide into two, and those souls are in turn transformed into two and so, within a few generations, we are scattered over a large part of the earth. We form part of what the Alchemists call the Anima Mundi, the sould of the world; the truth is that if the Anima Mundi were merely to keep dividing, it would keep growing, but it would also become gradually weaker. That is why, as well as dividing into two, we also find ourselves. And the process of finding ourselves is called love."
-Brida by Paulo Coelho (As read during their ceremony)
Yesterday was pure magic.
A little sneak peek:
Location: The Barns at Wesleyan Hills
Flowers: Datura: A Modern Garden
Dress: Ivy & Aster from White Dress by the Shore
Earrings: Anthropologie
Hair and Makeup: EG Salon
A wild storm is heading our way so I am completely racing to post this next-day sneak peek of this seriously incredible, oh-my-god-I-could-not-breathe-when-I-saw-her-dress, wedding. Thomas and I loved this wedding more than any words in any language ever invented.
Every single second was perfection.
(I've been posting sooo many black and whites on the blog lately. So for this one, I've decided to do it as color only. Yes. I think about these things...)
Dress: David Meister
Shoes: Christian Louboutin
Bracelets: JCrew
Earrings: AlexisRussell by LexLuxe raw diamonds
Hair: Danielle Mincolla
Headband: Anthropologie
Makeup: Andrea Roust at Lucia Loves Cherry
Bridesmaids dresses: Anthropologie
Rosary beads: Bride's personal collection from a trip to Spain.
Reception site: Riverside Farm Pittsfield, VT