Today I can drop my shoulders and exhale, unhurried and able to stare out the window of this coffee shop or at the dainty cinnamon swirls in my miel. A long weekend of sunshine and water healed the last of my unsutured wounds. Somehow I’d forgotten what’s needed to grow and how inevitable it is,Continue reading “Surfacing, Or What Letting Go Feels Like”
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The Real Work of a Marriage
After the blur of a beautiful wedding day, the real work of marriage begins. While I don’t know the nuances of every marriage, it’s fairly safe to say that even if we’ve begun to make the effort to learn from past relationships that we inevitably carry the baggage of all that was left unresolved. ThereContinue reading “The Real Work of a Marriage”
What I’ve Learned about Marriage—So Far
*Dedicated to my one & only in celebration of our anniversary
Vows for Ordinary Moments
This week my husband, Stephen, and I will celebrate our third anniversary, though it feels much longer than that. The more I learn of him, the more stories I hear and conjure in my imagination, the more I feel we’ve been circling each other’s hemispheres for the past twenty years. Our histories echo similar stories,Continue reading “Vows for Ordinary Moments”
Gabrielle Koontz 