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  • I was scrolling through Facebook when I saw a video that caught my eye. 🔹 The video featured a woman who used her phone and microphones to record the vibrations and sounds that sunflowers make. 🔹 The video's description explains that plants "talk" to each other and warn each other of danger. 🔹 Now, I'm not sure if the video is a hoax or not, but when I listened to the sounds that the sunflowers made, it seemed like a noise that I had heard before. It was a sound that reminded me of secluded, wild places, and the delight and magic of childhood. 🔹 There are a few places in the world that I've heard and felt the sounds of the plants and earth about me-New Zealand, the Scottish highlands, and Peru just to name a few. 🔹 I love how wide, majestic landscapes call on something proverbial, something deeply rooted in our bones and souls, something that we don't understand, but recognize in ourselves and in nature. Something beautiful. 🔹 So even if those sunflower sounds aren't real, I know that something in me can hear those beautiful sounds of the flowers and the trees, the mountains and the seas, and that they call to my soul. 🔹 Video of the sunflowers below. 🔹 http://thewildchild.co.za/woman-records-the-voice-of-a-sunflower-it-sounds-like-music-from-another-dimension/
  • How many people have read/are reading #thesubtleartofnotgivingafuck? ▪️ Here’s my favorite line so far, “Because when you give too many fucks—when you give a fuck about everyone and everything—you will feel that you’re entitled to be comfortable and happy at all times, that everything is supposed to be just exactly the way you want it to be. This is a sickness and will eat you alive. You will see every adversity as an injustice, every challenge as a failure, every inconvenience as a personal slight, every disagreement as a betrayal. You will be confined to your own petty, skull sized cell burning with entitlement and bluster...” ▪️ Oh man, @markmansonnet hit me right in my ‘justice for all’ libra heart. I care about everything!!! I care about what my boss and school thinks of me. I care about what my kids whisper about me behind my back. I care about what I look like. I care about all the horrible things that happen in the world. I care when a car drives dangerously around me. I care when people don’t pay their taxes. I care when people don’t pull their fare share. And you know what, I do more and strive more and give more to everyone because I care. ▪️ So yea, I care about everything. And I do try and do everything I can-because of that caring. And I do expect, as a result, the world to be fair, not even perfect, just fair. But that’s not reality. And I end up disappointed, angry, and sad. ▪️ My friend says fair is for Ferris wheels and funnel cake. Life’s not fair. And instead of striving to be happy or think positively, or try so hard to fix everything or look perfect or act perfect, why don’t we just stop caring? ▪️ Why don’t we not give a fuck about every single little thing in our lives? ▪️My goal for this week is to stop caring about a few things that I’ve been stressing about for too long... I’m just walking away from some stuff in my life, waving bye-bye! ▪️ #nofucksgiven
  • Peru 🇵🇪 was a challenging country for me. ▪️ In Peru, I endured extreme motion and air sickness, as well as altitude 🏔 sickness. ▪️ I remember touring the sacred valley and literally crying, slumped over in a plastic chair by a vegetable stand on the opposite side of the magnificent salt pools because I felt so 😫horrible. ▪️ But, in the words of one of my favorite writers Elizabeth Gilbert, “I feel about travel the way a happy new mother feels about her impossible, colicky, restless newborn baby - I just don't care what it puts me through. Because I adore it. Because it's mine. ❤️Because it looks exactly like me.” ▪️ So, it didn’t matter that I could barely breathe in Cusco. It didn’t matter that our hostel required about three flights of stairs from the main square to the front door, and then another flight to our room. It didn’t matter that I was having side effects from anti-altitude medicine. ▪️ I loved Cusco. No matter what it put me through, I loved it: I loved the 🌈 rainbow flags, the brown buildings, I loved my alpaca sweater that I wore for the remainder of trip like an in-love five-year-old does with their favorite outfit. I loved looking out from the rooftop terrace of my hostel and hearing the beautiful sounds of festivals and music and people. ▪️ It was all so beautiful.
  • Do what you love, and the rest just comes naturally. 🔹 On the door of my classroom there is a paper with a little bit about me: my name, where I went to school, why I became a teacher 👩‍🏫 etc. 🔹 And there is one section that says: when I was in high school I wanted to be... 🔹 And I filled in travel 🌍 journalist. 🔹 One student came to me today and asked why I wasn't a travel journalist. And I replied that even though I didn't become exactly what I thought about being when I was 16, I chose a career that allows me to follow my ❤️ passions. 🔹 I travel internationally several times a year, I have friends all over the world, I have a job that allows me to do what I love💕. 🔹 It's easy to always want more, or to not be satisfied with where you are. I know I have days (lots of them to be honest) where I want more-I want to travel ✈️ full time, I want to have a career as travel writer. 🔹 But then, I remember to be thankful. Thankful 🙏for all that I do have. That somehow, even though its not where I planned to be, I ended up exactly where I was supposed to be all along.
  • Hello travelers! I don’t know about you but I’ve been super busy 🤦🏽‍♀️That's what happens when you're a teacher and it's the first month back to school! 🍎 If you’re looking for some inspiration for your next mini trip, look no further! 🌟 I recently wrote ✏️ a blog post about how to spend an amazing two days in Istanbul. Link in my bio! 🇹🇷 Even if you’re not planning on visiting Istanbul anytime soon, I hope you’ll enjoy these beautiful photos 📷 and get inspired to go out there and see a new part of the world! 🌍 If you enjoy this photo or my blog post about Istanbul. ❤️Double Tap ❤️Share my post with a friend who loves to travel ❤️DM me any questions you have about travel, or what you want to see next from me! 👀 Until next time, happy travels 💕💕
  • When you realize that you can literally do anything, the power that seeps through your veins is electric. When I finally realized that I can materialize my dreams into existence, I couldn’t believe that I had waited so long to understand my true potential. 🧚‍♀️ But some days it’s hard. Some days (most days if I’m honest) are not perfect. And I become weighed down with daily chores and obligations. Things that people say to me, or how they act towards me can be hurtful. And I take everything to heart. ❤️ What I, and you must remember, is that we can not only materialize dreams, but direct our thoughts in positive ways. I have to remind myself how awesome I am. How strong I am-stronger than I realize. 💪🏽 The world and others sometimes tells us that we can’t, or we shouldn’t, or that it’s too hard, that we’re not good enough, smart enough, pretty enough. That our dreams are too big, that we want too much. 🌎 Sorry world-I deserve every good thing that comes my way and so much more. 🌟
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