21) this birthday life

Typically, I play things close to the vest. But today I felt compelled to let people in a little more.

20) don’t blaze it

You deserve to receive me from a place of lucidity, not one of faux happiness brought on by a leaf.

I'm not as special as I think I am when I'm on vacation, it's just me in a different spot.

Perhaps the only way for me to get the news story I'm really after is to let it play out without me.

If I can get my foot in the door, I can enact real change. But it feels impossible as long as the party is the most important part.

All that physical affection means nothing if 'it' is not in the picture.

I'm sensitive in more ways than one, and I don't feel strong enough to expose what's deep beneath my nail beds.

I was leaning into the grace of it all, imagining I was getting looks, just experiencing a new way to carry myself.

When there's nothing to report, the choice to go internal feels better than chasing a story.

I can't deny the call in my heart to always return home, no matter how much I feel like it lets me down.