lately

Lately I have rediscovered some wonderful things:

The joy of sitting on a picnic blanket with a group of dear friends, talking about what makes the world go round.

The pleasure of writing with a good pen in a new notebook.

The freedom of traveling by bike.

The summer's first sunburn: unpleasant but not unexpected.

Listening to the little voice inside that urges you to take care of yourself when everyone else is screaming at you to be careless.

Sometimes being reckless, to remember what that feels like.

That it's okay to be in a funk, but it's also okay to wake up and decide to live today as the person you want to be even if it feels fake. Sometimes you just have to live it until it feels real.

The feeling the day it starts to seem real.