Category: Life

  • Eight New Year’s Wishes (& I was published)

    Eight New Year’s Wishes (& I was published)

    Greetings dear friends and gentle souls, I hope all is well wherever you are. Twenty-twenty-one has been a difficult year for me and for many I know (and I don’t know). Although I know well the frail nature of human expectation, I do believe in hope. And, inspired by Sarah Clarkson’s post on New Year’s…

  • November Letter: Cardinals & Cool Skies

    November Letter: Cardinals & Cool Skies

    Dear friends, Rest has arrived at last. After three and a half months of school with no breaks, it’s strange (and lovely) to revel in the repose this fall break provides. On the evening of my first day of break, I kneeled by my window, letting my soul drink in the beauty of the setting…

  • October Letter: Loneliness

    October Letter: Loneliness

    Dear friend, Do you ever feel lonely? Do you ever feel isolated, divorced from other beings, divorced from the world itself? “No man is an island,” but what if one feels like one? Do you ever long for the things you imagine others do in togetherhood, ashamed because you do not, yet helpless as to…

  • A September Letter: The Tune of Beauty

    A September Letter: The Tune of Beauty

    Dear friends, Life is fickle, is it not? As I mentioned in my last post, grappling with uncertainty is hard. And there are many unknowns these days. I know this to be true in my own life. Unknowns — delay, despair, death — wreak chaos… and how can one edify chaos? How can one live…

  • Expectations

    Expectations

    Establishing expectations is the human attempt to organize and control an unknown future. Through their formation, we banish — at least momentarily — the jarring fact of life’s uncertainty. Expectations stand as frames of reference by which we dream, plan, and make decisions. At heart, they are hospitable to our desires. We approach life —…

  • A Summer Letter

    A Summer Letter

    Dear friends, I hope you are well. It’s been a while since I’ve written on here. Please forgive my recent lack of consistency — the past few weeks have been pretty busy. This summer, we traveled back to the states for a two-month summer visit. It has been an exciting, hectic whirlwind of an adventure.…