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I rarely get political on my little square of the internet. But since this is a celebration for me, I wanted to speak out a bit as to why. I’ve voted on both sides of the aisle many times. I’ve never strictly been behind one political party. I’ve voted Bush. I’ve voted Obama. I vote for leadership. I vote for integrity. And I vote for policy. But those first two are really important to me. Anyone can conjure good policy, but not everyone can unite a Country. Speak to its people w conviction and empathy for all. And by empathy I mean speak to us ALL as Americans, not as Red or Blue. We are way more than colors. But we are so blindly divided we are incapable of seeing that anymore. Friend against friend. Family members against family members. People on the street with their Biden and Trump flags against each other as if we were two Countries. We should all be raising the American flag united for OUR country and not our party. This flag doesn’t belong to the Republican part as many people like to believe. This is our flag. Our symbol of freedom. A freedom that makes me shed tears every time I think about it. I could never take it for granted. My only wish for our Country is that the propaganda and lies stop. That the incessant feeds of fear on social media halts. This does neither side any justice. I’ve seen more fake memes and fake hysterical text about antifa than I can handle in one lifetime. We need to begin fact checking before sharing. We need to use our critical thinking to dissect whether our leaders are trying to brain wash us, or whether we truly believe in their rhetoric. Biden wasn’t my first choice for a Democratic candidate. But, our Country couldn’t stand another four years of division. If that doesn’t scare you into change, nothing ever will. We were inching into a dangerous space as a Nation. The rift between Red and Blue deepening. I could feel it on social media, forums, the news, friendship circles, work. Eeeeeeverywhere. Just how divided and divisive we were becoming. Even cruel and malicious. Policy does mean something to me. But again, leadership and integrity in a President do too. The heart of our great nation has been in angst. You must feel this? Were you wiling to continue that train wreck? I don’t know how the bandaid over America will happen. How we can turn to the other political party and invite them in with understanding, instead of dehumanizing them? These platforms we have you guys are so powerful. Continued division isn’t the answer. Think before you post. Don’t post memes because they agree with your logic, without fact checking their validity. Fact check eeeeeverything you see. Try to understand how your audience will perceive the message. Because sometimes there is a better way of expressing it, to be less divisive. Shaming others and pointing fingers isn’t the answer. Shaming isn’t educating. I keep seeing both parties constantly bring up the past ‘O’ but how about when *** did the same thing.’ It’s so petty. Let’s do better than that. Let’s at least realize that we are doing this… and that operating from a space that isn’t to unite, but to continue to divide isn’t productive. We are humans, not Political Parties. Really look at the reasons why we are posting something. I hope our hearts soften towards one another. And that our deepest desires for our Country is to work together, instead of tearing each other apart. The latter is so much easier. Bridging gaps isn’t, but definitely worth it. At least to me. My biggest desire is to see us thrive. TOGETHER. Let’s treat each other like allies. We have the same blood running through our veins. We want the same things for our families. We all want prosperous futures. We all want to give love and be loved. Let’s offer that to the other party as well. We are all one and the same. We are Americans.

Putting together a Newsletter for my October Fall Ritual Sessions 🍂🎃🍂. These are going to be very interactive sessions with pumpkin carvings, baking sessions, wreath building, costume creating, crafting, whatever your Fall // Halloween ritual is really. These sessions are meant to commemorate your family traditions 👻. Will be sending my Newsletter Friday, and if this sounds something up your alley, sign up for my newsie in through the link in my bio section and you’ll get the deets 🍁.
Can’t wait to create something spooky and fun together. But especially something ritualistic that you do every year to celebrate the season. I have a Fall Ritual Session this Saturday that I can’t wait to share 🙈🍂!!
Happy 2nd day of Autumn beauties 🍂!

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I wrote this in 2014, and I bumped into it today, and felt compared to share,

I can lose myself in the velvety antiqueness of nostalgia – in the energy of how it made the old me feel. People say to live in the epic now. But not me, there are times I wish to curl with a memory, a really good one and have the new me savor something I might no longer feel, or in something I have longed to feel again. The memory of the past might have changed a tinge, but then again, so have we since that last meeting of the mind, moment and heart. The ebb and flow of our emotional undercurrent is a vast and necessary ocean. Sometimes, I think of a particular moment and a soundtrack cues in from a folder in my mind. My memories are all music-filled with burnt-yellowed-edges. And so today, I want to be sitting in this red chair, sting of the sun on my skin. I want him fishing in the water to my right, water by his knees, fish between his ankles. I want my peripheral vision to catch the glisten of the fishing rod doing its hypnotizing-fish-dance... I want him to feel like a kid again. I want to find river treasures hiding in a pocket of sand. I want to see fish struggle through ocean currents, making their way towards something bigger than their small bodies. I want to see pelicans fly above-head and feel jealous that I wasn’t born with wings. I want to feel myself connecting the dots. I want to fall in love over and over again with the Earth in the singular way I did beneath that umbrella.

/mf 2014

Happy Anniversary you guys 😍



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