“Art is something that makes you breathe with a different kind of happiness.”
- Ann Albers

Deception Pass,Washington September 2022 Photography JK Stribley

Somewhere someone needs help
Send love.
It matters.

If you can’t get there yourself,
then take a deep breath.
Breathe in the weight of their troubles.
Breathe out and send all those burdens
into the Light
where sorrows can be held
with the most tender and infinite grace.

Breathe in what you can do.
Breathe out what you can’t change.
Spool out a thread of connection,
send courage and calm.
For the nights can be long
and filled with shadows,
and sometimes terrible
unexpected waters will rise.

Somewheres someone needs help.
Send love.
It matters.

- Carrie Newcomer,
​Send Love, It Matters

"In the end I think the real work is not finding inspiration, but attuning to it. When I’m not feeling inspired, I know somewhere along the line I’ve been distancing myself from life.
This feeling of being separate from ‘something greater’ is usually brought about by numbing habits;
so I’ll take myself to the forest
and let my senses be reawoken
​and warmed back to life”
- Toko-Pa Turner

I cannot tell you what lies ahead,
but I can tell you:
​you will grow.
Your ability to keep going each day
is a sign of courage on its own.
I know that peace feels far away
as you try to make sense of all the change,
and I just hope you can remember this:
You do not have to make sense of it all
in order to be worthy of peace.
To be the one who keeps breathing
in the unknown is a brave and miraculous thing.
Learning to exhale is no small feat.
You are doing brave things.
Yes, you are doing brave things.
Even though it doesn’t always feel that way.
- Morgan Harper Nichols