You Are Unique

I think the people that inspire us most, are those that live in the moment and are able to bring our own dreams to the surface. I am inspired by my friend David today. He stopped by this morning, so we talked about life while I blended up my super clean green breakfast concoction. I’ve known David for about six years; he is one of my brother’s best friends from the Air Force Academy. David…

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World Oceans Day

When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise,  and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused.  ~Rainer Maria Rilke

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Little Signs and Big Love

Brian and I island hopped to Maui this past weekend to celebrate our one year anniversary. It was a relaxing and fun weekend and neither of us wanted to leave. There is a tranquility and spaciousness about Maui that I don’t think exists on Oahu, but I guess that is what is neat about the islands; they are all beautiful in such different ways. I always felt pulled to Hawaii, and aside from the obvious,…

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You Are Always Becoming a Writer

4.5.2011 I was born to write stories. This is perhaps the one true thing I know in life. I have known this since I was a little girl. In the past few years however, I have done a lot more talking about writing than actual writing. I took a creative writing class at UBC before I moved to Hawaii and it stirred me out of the artistic doldrums I had fallen into following college. Amidst…

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If You Have a Dream, Don’t Waste Your Energies Explaining Why

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