After a while you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul, and you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning and company doesn’t mean security, and you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts and presents aren’t promises, and you begin to accept your defeats with your head up and your eyes open, with the grace of an adult, not the grief of a child, and you learn to build all your roads on today because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans. After a while you learn that even sunshine burns if you get too much. So plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. And you learn that you really can endure… that you really are strong, and you really do have worth.

—Veronica A. Shoffstall  (via eastatlanta)

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Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

—Dalai Lama (via pamilya | haygirlhay)

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Not wearing mascara, Tumblr, a fabulous new coworker (who didn’t flinch when she came into my cube after I had just read a super nice email from a friend and was starting to cry) and taking the rest of today as a mental health day are what’s saving me right now.

From the bottom of my (broken little) heart, thank you. Really. You all are amazing.

In honor of tomorrow’s Michigan-Michigan State game, here’s a picture of me and my mommacita at last week’s Michigan-Northwestern game. Loving the pink outfit and side-eye in the background.  Go Blue!

In honor of tomorrow’s Michigan-Michigan State game, here’s a picture of me and my mommacita at last week’s Michigan-Northwestern game. Loving the pink outfit and side-eye in the background. 

Go Blue!

moms I’ve gotten three phone calls and a text message from my mom this morning. She’s taking a girls’ trip and is flying for only the second or third time in her life, I think. And without my dad, which is a rare occurrence - they normally go everywhere together. So, I spent a couple phone calls this week walking her through the whole process: checking in online, either paying for her bag online or at the kiosk, where she needed to go when she got to the airport, what she needed to take out or off while going through security…  It’s funny how things reverse as we get older. She said to me this morning after I asked her to text me when she got on the plane and to call when she landed, “Now you’re the one doing the mothering.” And it’s true. I’m so grateful that I have a great relationship with my mom and am in a place where I can do things to take care of her. It’s nice to be able to pay some of it back.

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I’ve gotten three phone calls and a text message from my mom this morning.

She’s taking a girls’ trip and is flying for only the second or third time in her life, I think. And without my dad, which is a rare occurrence - they normally go everywhere together. So, I spent a couple phone calls this week walking her through the whole process: checking in online, either paying for her bag online or at the kiosk, where she needed to go when she got to the airport, what she needed to take out or off while going through security… 

It’s funny how things reverse as we get older. She said to me this morning after I asked her to text me when she got on the plane and to call when she landed, “Now you’re the one doing the mothering.”

And it’s true. I’m so grateful that I have a great relationship with my mom and am in a place where I can do things to take care of her. It’s nice to be able to pay some of it back.

GPOYW | Happy Early Father’s Day to my dad who embraces my love of color. Also, my dad is famous.

GPOYW | Happy Early Father’s Day to my dad who embraces my love of color.

Also, my dad is famous.

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