Today, I say farewell to my 33rd year. It was by far the best and hardest year of my life. If I’ve learned anything at all this year, it is that the two are not mutually exclusive. We can feel both great joy and sadness at the same time. We can feel uncertainty and conviction. We are humans, after all. Beautifully complex. Ever changing.
To say goodbye to 33 and hello to 34, I’ve composed a list of all of the things I’ve experienced in this doozy of a year:
- Pregnancy.
- Nausea.
- Wonder.
- Adoration.
- Growth.
- Spring.
- Summer.
- Fall.
- Winter.
- Darkness.
- Light.
- Spring again.
- Savoring.
- Patience.
- Letting go.
- Labor.
- Breathing.
- Birth.
- Joy.
- Fear.
- Resistance.
- Insomnia.
- Exhaustion.
- PPD.
- Uncertainty.
- Surrender.
- Resilience.
- Rebirth.
- Hope.
- Enoughness.
- Strength.
- Laughter.
- Love.
All of this PLUS I had the honor of witnessing and documenting many celebrations, births, and slices of life. What an amazing year.
Thanks for being with me through it all.
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Pssst…to celebrate my birthday, I am opening registration for the summer session of the Slice of Life Project today and offering a sweet early-bird rate of $75. Enter the code “savor” at check-out to receive the discount. Note: the early-bird rate will expire Monday at 5:00 p.m. PST. Thereafter, it will return to $99. Click here for details and to register!
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