Sharing my journey to a slow, intentional life.

One blog post at a time.

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  • I’ve spent a lot of time alone in my life. Lots. Quiet childhood days alone laying in the yard looking at the sky, hoping one of those few planes passing over will stop and take me to wherever it’s going. Rainy days sitting on the stoop covered up with my…

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  • Transitions

    The last day of 2021. What a crazy, mixed-up, amazing time to be alive. Most people look at tomorrow, New Year’s Day, to be a…

  • Control

    Why is it so hard sometimes to keep control? When that one thing triggers you and you have to make yourself not react to it?…

  • On The Tip Of My Tongue

    What is the word for when the word love isn’t right or enough? For what it is when you’re so connected to that one person…

  • Kintsukuroi

    To repair with gold. This is a Japanese philosophy suggesting that broken things can be repaired with gold and thus made more valuable. In other…

About Me

I’m Barbara, the creator and author behind this blog. I do my best to express the world and life as I know it. Life has been one continuous struggle until I finally found the key. Let go. Realize you’re the creator of your world. Let the world love you, be patient and simply let go of everything. Love will find you. As we all know or come to realize, love is the answer.