This photo was taken exactly a year ago. How fast this year has flown, am I the only one that thinks that? How indescribably one may change in such span. How romantic, to know it as well. • This year has been internally one difficult trail. I&rs
I’ve had a quote stuck in my head recently, it perfectly encapsulates so many ways our hearts love and appreciate this whimsical existence. It’s from The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. One quote in particular resounds
Excerpt from my journals I wrote on Jan 1, thinking of 2019. • Certainly there are years/days that you can see eternity. Days that move in slow motion, different, weighted, and dark. Coursed from strains of life, littered moments that cause ravi
So I got 2 tattoos, I originally planned to get a completely different one, but as I was in the tattoo shop; I genuinely know that in a quiet voice, God told me to get these, to brand myself. To give me a reminder of who I truly am, not who I think I
I have a confession to make. • I used to love Jesus more. • The first 2 pictures are of me today, and 1 I took almost exactly a year ago in Iraq. 2 different lifetimes it seems. • I was asked the other day, “What was the biggest
27 is here, and it’s my favorite number too. So if this year sucks I’m changing my favorite number probably. What a year 26 was, the most difficult one I’ve had thus far would be an understatement. Yet in its hardship, I’ve le
Hiraeth - (noun.) a homesickness for a home to which you cannot return, a home which maybe never was; the nostalgia, the yearning, the grief for the lost places of your past. (Welsh.) • I sat here tonight for numerous nights, experiencing this w
Transition is a word I don’t really understand. • I’m learning.. It’s an action, yet one that embodies emotion, heart, and soul. I’ve never been good at it. Yet, thankfully, I’ve been surrounded by amazing people th
• This is a portrait I took right before I left for Iraq, and let me be raw with you all. My heart was in utter and complete disrepair. I wasn’t the man I desired to be; or even in the place to reach the man I should be. I was stuck. I was
Two of the biggest takeaways I came home from Iraq with weren't incredible philosophical epiphanies; but rather simple and mundane. They came from this sweet girl you see on your screen right now. We will call her CC for safety reasons. I remember se