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All tagged This Here Now
Join us as we slide into the Year of the Ox with self-care activities designed to help you navigate the new year.
Believe in superstition or no, everybody could use a little bit of good juju right now. I’ve decked my home in lucky charms including our Amabie.
The trip started rocky, the relentless wind pushed and pulled us. I wasn’t feeling it and wanted to turn back. Instead, we forged ahead.
Yes, I'm drowning. But I'm winning little battles that are restorin’ my belief that I can do this, that I got it in me to keep my dream alive.
I was in the calm of the moment – appreciatin’ being far from the frantic pace of Hanoi and my life back in Seattle.
Every new year I always tell myself it’s a fresh start, and I got two chances – standard calendar and lunar. But what I’ve noticed? My new beginnings always happen after something breaks.
Sometimes I wish I could snap my fingers and all the not-so-rad tasks and headaches of running a small biz would resolve themselves. But that's not reality.
I'm not crazy but for realz – there are many many moments when I ask myself how come I'm not M'THR F'IN Wonder Woman.
Doubting yourself is good. It forces you to think through steps, think about options, it makes you evaluate shit that you should. But not believing in yourself is shit.
Six years in and sometimes I wonder why shit doesn’t work faster, why we don’t ship faster, but I get it. What we create, what we share is a mix of design, storytelling, craft, and travel.
I’m dreaming of listening to a fave summertime anthem, on repeat… bustin’ a move and nodding along to Will Smith rappin “Summer, summer, summertime, Time to sit back and unwind”, drink in hand, and the sun beating down on me.
