In the last year, I’ve realized that I have picked up on habits from those I spend a lot of time with. And I made a list of these things. I am a collection of those around me. The time we spend, the words they say, the actions I observe, all pour into me. I make my pie with almond extract the way my great granny did, eat stone fruit on fishing trips the way my papa does, reach for ginger chews in the check out line like my mema. When I'm excited I squeal, I didn't realize un

Sometimes it can be hard when we get busy, stressed, or anxious to let ourselves process what is around us. But let’s make it a point to stop and pause.

A few weeks ago while driving to church I was thinking about how if one thing was off about gravity, that the entire earth and everything in it would either smush itself into nothing or explode into nothing. Did you know that if phytoplankton were to go extinct, that the entire human population would slowly go extinct too? I knew about the importance of trees to our oxygen supply but I recently learned that phytoplankton is responsible for around 50-80% of our oxygen! I woul