Fashioning an inspired life
Travel, food, family, home, clothing, bundle them all together and you have a succinct marketing category: “lifestyle.” The manner in which we live is now a booming industry and the enduring subject of adoration for millions on Instagram and other digital platforms. With the overwhelming amount of stylized images out there, it is easy to become dulled to the charade. One scroll through your feed reaps countless photos of beautifully…
We only show the perfect moments, sealing the darker cousins behind closed lids, only to seep out the corners in spurts and fits and only to the ones we know won’t run away. It makes sense. No one wants too much to soon, or even one more drop of unpleasant information settling into the reservoir. We want to beautify what we can in our world so that the ugly becomes more…
I remember when the idea of traveling the world seemed so intangible, so far away, that it was a fantasy I believed only touchable by the truly brave and brazen. I remember how hearing stories of other people’s world trips, whether it was from someone I met at a party or on the countless travel blogs I pored over, would catapult me into a world of envy…
| Photo by Mario Ashkar Film | Don’t worry; it’s your imperfections that make you beautiful. Those things that make you stand a bit longer before the mirror, in an attempt to primp them away. Those things that you are first to call out in a photo, just glaring back at you as you wish them away. Beauty played a heavy hand in our existence, its…
It’s funny the things that come to you. You’re washing the dishes and suddenly remember how you once read in The Boxcar Children series that the characters washed their dishes in the stream with sand. You look at a flower you collected on the street once upon a summer and are whisked back to who you were and how you felt then. At any given moment, we have so many memories and…
The first bites of chocolate cake are the sweetest. The first warm day of Spring is the most refreshing. The first moments of a new relationship are the most exciting. The world of firsts is ripe with all that is good, but there is a truism lying underneath, just one small prick away. When it escapes in all its tired glory, you roll your eyes. “Nothing…