everything is going to be okay.

people are good. the world is hopeful. we can be the difference.

[klarally]

February 29th: a leap year. When we lost my father last year on March 29th, I never even considered that we would get a whole year of 29's. Of course when you bury your goofy father on April Fools Day, you don't realize you will be measuring every month by the 29th or the fact that of course you are heading into a leap year. Now eleven 29th's in and I don't know if I'm ready for the next one. No one prepares you for the first year without your father. No one prepares you for loss, but also no one prepares you for the love you'll notice between strangers. They don't tell you how lovely it is to watch people grow old together and listen to how others fall in love. They don't prepare you for the love you'll see every time a bride and her father dance. They don't prepare you for your best friend singing with her dad and realizing how beautiful of a second family you have. Life doesn't prepare you for that but I am glad I got eleven months of noticing love. (at Golden Gate Bridge)

[purplebuddhaproject]

[klarally]

I love people that read. I think it screams humility. When someone reads, they are essentially admitting they want more, that the world is not enough for them. They want more knowledge, more experience. Whatever this life is, they want more of it.

Nicholas Browne

[klarally]

The best kind of people are the ones that come into your life and make you see sun where you once saw clouds. The people that believe in you so much, you start to believe in yourself too. The people that love you, simply for being you.

[ridiculousoptimism]

[klarally]

Today will never come again. Be a blessing. Be a friend. Encourage someone. Take time to care. Let your words heal, not wound.

[klarally]

They believe when a lot of things start going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born- and that this something needs for you to be distracted so that it can be born as perfectly as possible. | Anne Lamott (at Yosemite National Park)

[icanread]

[klarally]

Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you’ll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you’ll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.

Cheryl Strayed

[klarally]

The trees are about to remind us how lovely it is to let things go.

[cliffedgeoftheworld]

[klarally]

I know you’ve lost someone and it hurts. You may have lost them suddenly, unexpectedly. Or perhaps you began losing pieces of them until one day, there was nothing left. You may have known them all your life or you may have barely known them at all. Either way, it is irrelevant—you cannot control the depth of a wound another inflicts upon you.
Which is why I am not here to tell you tomorrow will be a new day. That the sun will go on shining. Or there are plenty of fish in the sea. What I will tell you is this; it’s okay to be hurting as much as you are. What you are feeling is not only completely valid but necessary—because it makes you so much more human. And though I can’t promise it will get better any time soon, I can tell you that it will—eventually. For now, all you can do is take your time. Take all the time you need.

Lang Leav

[icanread]

[klarally]

That's how I'm feeling about Sunday. This marathon may push me to the limit, but I think it's exactly what I need to do.

[keepcalmandwedon]

[klarally]

That’s when you rise, finally. You rise out of the mud, in the rain, and you go back inside and suddenly everything gets really cold and calm. The answer doesn’t lie in your backyard because no one is going to come and save you even if you beg them to. Especially if you beg them to. You’re on your own, like you’ve always been on your own. You have to keep going forward, until you can’t go forward anymore.

Jeff VanderMeer

[klarally]

Three years ago today, I arrived in Italy. Three years ago, I met some of the best friends I've ever had. Three years ago as I jumped on a plane and flew to a country where I didn't know the language, my world expanded. I began to live my life with intention. I listened to people in a whole new way. I experienced a new home away from my family and friends. I delved deeper into a culture than I had ever before. I also made myself a promise that when I flew back, I would explore the United States with that same attention, desire, and wonder. Now three years later, with only three states in the U.S. that I have not explored, I'm ready for my next adventure. Here's to traveling, listening, and learning every single day about the complexities of life. Here's to always keeping my promises even if they are just with myself. And here's to dressing up and having a photoshoot with your best friend because you love Breakfast at Tiffany's. (at Florence, Italy)

[icanread]