Age is like the latest version of a software — it has a bunch of great new features but you lost all the cool features the previous version had.
prose
Unabashed
Don’t edit the demons — let them scream.
Passed down
To journal is a present of the past to your future self.
The graceful and beauteous
Flowers rewrite soil, rain, and sunshine into petal’d poetry.
Live well
Don’t trade your life for just an empty hourglass.
Sparks & sizzle
Two people who have chemistry evolve quickly to biology.
Brotherly wisdom
“If you ever change your mind… you’re not stuck with it. You’ve got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you’re not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice.”
—Steven D. Woodhull
Timekeeper
Grief is historian of the heart.
Party angels
Every time a champagne bottle pops, a party angel gets its wings.
Your battle
If your armor against the world is laziness and excuses, you’re not protecting yourself from battle and injury — you’ve trapped yourself inside with them.
Openings
Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul — and you answer.
Bent & broken
“I have been bent and broken, but — I hope — into a better shape.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870), Great Expectations, 1861
Windblown
The veil concealing truth gets windswept in the wee hours, revealing all to the silence of the night.