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Misty days are their own kind of beauty.

After over a month of complete closures in all of NC, a few sections of the Blue Ridge Parkway opened this week. Yesterday, I've heard, it was absolutely packed with folks turning out in force to see the co

WELCOME NOVEMBER…

There is something about November that says ‘keep going’.
We are not quite through the year, yet the finish-line looms.
We are plunged into darkness by Mother Nature.
We are faced with the ‘season of joy’,
and yet many of us wonder

THE WITCH WOUND

They call it the ‘witch wound’.

We were punished you see, broken, slain, for shining too brightly.

So we learned to hide that spark.
We learned to play it down, play dumb, play dead.

And we were taught to fear the light within us,

May your Samhain (Halloween) be full of magic from dawn to dusk, where the day brings playful surprises and the night reveals enchanting mysteries. Here’s to a whole day of treats, laughter, and just the right amount of spooky fun!

Happy Halloween 

Halloween is an ancient druidic holiday, one the Celtic peoples have celebrated for millennia. It is the crack between the last golden rays of summer and the dark of winter; the delicately balanced tweak of the year before

If you ever get the chance, go alone. Walk alone, travel alone, live alone, dance alone. Just for a while. If you ever get the chance, learn who you are when the world isn't demanding you be one way or another.

Most people only know how to stand o

Breakage
by Mary Oliver

I go down to the edge of the sea.
How everything shines in the morning light!
The cusp of the whelk,
the broken cupboard of the clam,
the opened, blue mussels,
moon snails, pale pink and barnacle scarred—
and nothing at all w

Sometimes we love
And our hearts are broken

We dream
And our hopes are shattered

We wish
And our desires are unfulfilled

We give freely
And are left empty-handed

And we care for others
And aren’t loved in return
And those who we once most admired and val

Solitude is a reminder that sometimes, stepping away from the buzz, the constant connections, the stimulation overload is not just a luxury, but a necessity to be brighter and stronger than before.

Solitude isn’t about isolation or loneliness.
It’s

We all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in grains of sand.

But then we get the magic educated right out of our souls. W

A love letter from those who have passed on…

Take the love you have for me
And radiate it outwards
Allowing it to touch and impact others
Take the memory you have of me
And use it as a source of inspiration
To live fully, meaningfully and intentionally

Life often feels like a series of unpredictable twists and turns, and in the midst of challenges, it can be hard to see the light ahead. Yet, sometimes, if we pause and look closely, we can catch glimpses of joy peeking through the chaos. Whether

Wishing you a Happy Adventurer's Full Moon, dear Kindred!

Except below about the Adventurer's Moon, from Moon Elves: "Their Customs and Their Magic" by The Silver Elves (available on Amazon internationally) (art by Asako Eguchi titled "Moon Magic")

"T

She didn’t dream of a huge mansion; she longed for a cozy log cabin tucked away in the quiet, where they could grow old together. A place where their only neighbors were the trees, the birds would serenade them awake, and the stars would watch over

" I am no one special. Just a common man with common thoughts.
I've led a common life.
There are no monuments dedicated to me,
and my name will soon be forgotten.
But in one respect, I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who's ever lived :
I've l

One day you will realize that happiness is not what your house looks like, but how you love the people within its walls.

Happiness is not finding success by a certain time, but finding something you love so much time itself seems to disappear.

Happin

"Don't Shame Yourself"

Don’t ever
shame yourself
for showing up,
admitting or sharing,
only to be shutdown
or even ghosted.
To want to reach out
and describe your struggle
and be understood
is better than holding
it all painfully insi

"The best things in life are free: hugs, smiles, friends, kisses, family, sleep, love, laughter, and good memories."

The best things in life truly are free. They don’t come with a price tag but hold immeasurable value — hugs that offer comfort wh

What is Luxury?

They made us believe that luxury was the rare, the expensive,
the exclusive. Everything that seemed unobtainable.

Now we realize that Luxury were those little things we didnt know how to value when we had them, and now that they'

When people allow you to know about their pain and talk about it, take your shoes off. It’s a holy place.
Be humble, be kind when someone shows you vulnerability.

- Amani Albair
Art by Sandra Bierman