Today is day seven of social distancing for us. It’s been challenging, but also a much-needed reset. We’re enjoying these longer spring days and relishing in simple pleasures (gardening, afternoon naps, sitting on our porch with nowhere to go + nothing to do, and simple dinners by candlelight). Last week we started prepping our outdoor […]

“And the people stayed home. And read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and were still. And listened more deeply. Some meditated, some prayed, some danced. Some met their shadows. And the people began to think differently. “And the people healed. And, […]

I love flowers, plants, trees — anything that grows, despite my serious lack of a green thumb. My love of plants runs deep — one of my earliest memories of my papaw Charles (my son Charlie’s namesake) is puttering around with him in his garden, our hands stained from the iron-rich, terracotta-hued Carolina clay. I […]