hey, farm fresh peach.

you ever find yourself thisclose to tears in the middle of aldi’s on a sunny saturday morning?

not because aldi’s is a bad place lol (we love aldi’s here) —

but maybe it was like this:

you’re already physically + emotionally stretched and up against a very important deadline. all of your internal + external resources are maxed. time is super tight + you’ve just got to do this one “quick” thing…

so, you’re more vulnerable to new obstacles, less able to immediately pivot to problemsolving mode, and in that little wisp of a gap, singularly-focused shoppers who act like you don’t exist + a series of missing needed items can somehow slide in to poke those tender, tear-bringing spots

that was me yesterday

afterwards i soon found myself passing bishop’s orchards farm market

i had decided to just keep on trucking with my plan for the day rather than let the aldi’s debacle derail me

and that was a good choice for the moment (it’s what brought me by bishop’s)

intuition-driven decisionmaking encourages you to pay attention + to KEEP paying attention — to what’s going on within you as well as what’s happening around you

and seeing that market felt like a divine invitation to pause + restore

i’d been there recently with my mom, and we’d had a blast. we’d also had the most amazing freaking bakery-fresh whoopie pie of my life! and it felt like a great time to have another one 🤣

plus, their flower market is gorgeous, the sun was shining, and once i allowed myself to pay attention to all of that, the answer was clear:

my plan could be tweaked, my tasks could wait a little bit longer, they’d get better done with a sun-refreshed + whoopiepie-nourished me on the job

and it worked! being with the flowers in the sun warmed me up from the outside in + grounded me in to beauty that never fails to inspire + restore

now, they didn’t have any whoopie pies — but i grabbed a sweet key lime cake concoction that delighted all the same, plus some raspberry lemonade + a farm fresh juicyass peach

i almost took my treats to go, so i could jump quick back into go mode

because that’s what we do, right?

i mean, how often do we dare to take a moment for ourselves in the first place, only to cut it short so we can get right back to biz?

making do instead of giving ourselves MORE

and we’ve done it for so long that we mistake that sliver of soul sustenance for a whole heart healing meal

but what if you dared to take even just a little bit MORE for yourself, sweet bloom?

i did, and it made all the difference

my little 30-minute pitstop absolutely brought me back to life

sometimes all it takes is to drink pink things + eat bright sweet treats + breathe in the freshness that’s waiting to heal + soothe you

as i was sitting solo in the sun before leaving, i started to think of defaults + turnarounds

do you tend to default to stories of the world conspiring for or against you?

because whether you feel like you can never catch a break or that the universe has your back… they’re both stories you tell yourself

and we can always find evidence for the stories we choose

which isn’t to say that the fix is simple or that it’s your fault if you tell yourself shitty stories

there are ALL SORTS of reasons for that, very few of which would have been in your control in the first place

but you CAN choose to notice them now

and you CAN choose to actively engage with them, question them, and shift them —

over time. as a practice that becomes a way of life

when you hold close to the story that you can’t ever catch a break, every big + small challenge, annoyance or obstacle feels like a personal affront proving you’ll never get what you want, so why even try

when you do the same for the story that there’s some energetic support guiding + providing for you, the smallest coincidence or occurrence can feel like unseen love + comfort proving that you will always be okay + you are worthy of everything you crave

depending on the story that guides you, when you pass by your own bishop’s orchards, you’ll either feel blessed + grateful or bogged down by something ELSE you don’t get to do or enjoy

and when you actually DO stop but they don’t have the thing you wanted, you’ll either feel inspired to take the opportunity to try something else or gripped again by the idea that you never get what you want

because sometimes a whoopie pie isn’t just a whoopie pie

and sometimes sunshine + flowers are everything

may you allow yourself the magic of noticing what might be right there in front of you, ready to remind you of what it is you really need

xxoo, cc

ps: here are some pics from the day. got any faves?

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