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Venice, CA 💙|💚Seattle, WA Last week I journeyed up the Pacific Coast. An 1100 mile transition out of one dream and into another. I, surprisingly, felt a little heavy during the journey. Driving through an onslaught of emotions as each mile marker passed me by. As a writer, I can't help but fall deeply in love with every story. In love with every ending. In love with every beginning. Each person, each place, each memory as lovely as a light gust of wind caressing my cheek - not to be held onto - to appreciate in the moment. Today I, thankfully, feel light again. I've embraced the range of emotions and memories that flowed through me. Welcoming each one into their rightful place in my higher self, forever a part of the pieces that make my greater whole. I'm grateful to be back in Seattle. For round two. Of creating. Of writing. Of loving. Of following through on a vision that started out as only a dream. I won't stop until it's done. Then I'll transition...once again...into a new dream. Happy Sunday. Keep journeying. Keep dreaming. Keep doing you. Much love & light, -Stella

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Embracing the ambiguity of gray like a blanket made of equal parts stars and moon.

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Anything worth doing in life, is worth overdoing. My second novel is taking me there - to feelings and places in my heart and mind - further than I've ever gone before. Art is life.

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Stelliferous // Having or abounding with stars. Photo (c) Michelle Moore

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12 Modern Resolutions That Will Have You Embracing Boundless Beginnings in 2016

Cheers to the following 12 resolutions, along with song and crystal pairing recommendations, as reminders to live each day in the New Year with purpose and determination.

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The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word. - Mata Hari Photo (c) Michelle Moore for Free People

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ADVENTURE // Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Photo (c) Michelle Moore

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ART // One year ago, I called my lovely and talented photographer friend, Heather B Allison, to shoot a few lifestyle photos of me to post along with the press announcement of my upcoming novel. The following day the Seattle rain stopped, as if on cue, moments before we met on my balcony. We roamed around the garden balcony, in the pale grey afternoon light, lost in our conversation about love, dreams, friendship, adventure, music, and our mutual love for creating art. Moments later, as Heather went to take her first shot of me leaning on my balcony, she asked what my book was about. I couldn’t help but smile sheepishly and respond, “It’s about moments like these.”   It’s been 12 short months since that conversation with Heather on the balcony. My days have continued to be filled with countless moments, some inspirational and amazing, some filled with creating art and listening to music, some filled with silence and meditation, some incredibly tough and trying, but every single one magnificent in its own way. Cheers to experiencing many more moments…Until the Beat Stops. Photo (c) Heather B Allison