This morning in the shower Vienna and Gemma made up a chant with a dance that went like this: “yeah, yeah, we got this! Woo!” repeated no less than fifty times.
It felt profound. I laughed and fist pumped.
Then Gemma promptly bit Vienna teeth marks and all. aghhh.
…so it’s all temporary, the hard and the wonderful, the dull and the dazzling. Having life means we know death is part of the deal. So while we’re maybe collectively more uncertain than we’ve ever been, I’m hoping we can also hold space for the truth that uncertainty has always been baked into our experience of being alive and that’s always been the way it’s meant to be.
I don’t believe in bad days anymore.
Every day feels like a ride, cycling from amazing to mundane to terrible and back around.
Days are not one thing or one way the way that life is not one thing. It’s everything.
And so then at the end of my life, I don’t want to say, “I had a good life” but rather:
I had a human life. It was incredible, it was hard, it was fabulous and terrifying and the most important thing: I LIVED it.
(images from my beach shoot at Photo Native–huge thank you to them for having me + to our two model families!)
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