shedding skin 🐍

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short, guiding columns on deeper living.

📝 this much is true

For all the winding truths of life, one thing is constant: change. It’s so easy to become attached. To who you were. To what you’ve committed to. A career, a major, a path, an identity, an opinion. But in a world that goes from bright to dark, high tide to low, warmer to colder—to cling to what was is as unnatural as to force day on night. 

Let your life change.

~ P

in the air rn.

✨ vibes: shedding old skin, synchronicities, & the cocoon 🌀

My wise poetry professor once said, “you have to be open to day being night. Nothing is too sacred to turn into its opposite.”

This is a season of reinvention. Re-writing. Re-visioning. Re-making…

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