hey, summer tomato pie.

i’m so done with “ease” being a bad word + “hard work” being the goal

i don’t wanna be good girled for hard work, i want to be high fived for allowing it to be easy

i want to let things like ease + joy + delight be my directionshowers, and instead of seeing obstacles as things to push through, i want to let them be blinking lights indicating the need to detour

i mean… not EVERY time

but definitely SOME of the time

i want to dismantle the stories that’ve been woven into our histories that whisper + shout our trudging + bearing + mucking along as signs of goodness that keep us from reaching the heights to which we aspire on winds we inherently own

i want to be applauded for not just how easy i make it seem, but how easeful it actually is, and to squash the narrative that those who seek ease are lazy + those who persevere without it are destined for someone’s pedestal

like, yes. if you’re a hard worker, be a hard worker

but do it because that’s you being wholeheartedly you, and NOT because you feel like you’ve got something to prove

i want you to let your experience of ease + joy be the proof you present for the worthiness of their pursuit

i want you to decide how you want to live + then live it — no matter if it makes sense to anyone else

effervescence is something i feel in my cells + my smile, my heart + my mind

i feel it in the throes of unstrained laughter + the scent of something lovely

when waves crash + sunshine dances on glass

when hands tentatively graze each other + kindnesses unexpectedly appear

as someone who doesn’t identify as religious + didn’t have the most positive experience with the one i was halfheartedly raised in, words like “holy” + “sacred” didn’t hit right for me for quite some time

when i use them now, it’s a reclamation made possible by intentional redefinition

holy is what we make it, and this path of effervescence + ease is one of the most holy things i know

🌺 what about you, sweet bloom — what do you find most holy?

xxoo, cc

ps: at the beginning of the year i shared my intentions + meant to share a little about each one every few weeks or so. it’s been a minute, but i’m back with #5. might not be a bad time for you to check in on YOUR intentions for the year, too!

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💮 consider this your sign to get on it + give this intuition-driven living + decisionmaking stuff a whirl :)

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