Pascal Mercier said, “We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.” Life gets a hold of us and too often we let the bad times outweigh the good in our memories. We lose ourselves in those thoughts. But there are certain places where our souls know they are safe,...

& in case you're having a particularly bad day, here are some words that will (hopefully) pick you up.-------------------------------------------------------------------Despite what people tell you, you’re allowed to have bad days.You’re allowed to keep to yourself, to hurt, to ache.You are the only one who can understand your own struggle.Don’t listen when they try to define your pain...

He’ll just never know. He’ll never know how his blue eyes pierced through my soul and grasped on as tight as they could. He’ll never know how I fell for his laugh and the way his voice cracks. Or the way he purses his lips when he’s angry and the ridiculous sounds that come out of his mouth at the most inconvenient times. He’ll never know that the sound of his name unleashed a cage of...

I have an indescribable fascination with the night sky, maybe because it is so calm and beautiful, looking down upon this ugly world. The freckles scattered across my nose come and go with each passing day and my feet are always always always cold. My emotions are just as varied as my music taste. I find commitment impossible and my heart constantly aches for something more. I believe in magic,...