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Coming soon to the blog: Alex Ike!! ✨ In the meantime check out this clip from a poem she read to us ❤️

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Instructions on Not Giving Up Ada Limón, 1976 . "More than the fuchsia funnels breaking out of the crabapple tree, more than the neighbor’s almost obscene display of cherry limbs shoving their cotton candy-colored blossoms to the slate sky of Spring rains, it’s the greening of the trees that really gets to me. When all the shock of white and taffy, the world’s baubles and trinkets, leave the pavement strewn with the confetti of aftermath, the leaves come. Patient, plodding, a green skin growing over whatever winter did to us, a return to the strange idea of continuous living despite the mess of us, the hurt, the empty. Fine then, I’ll take it, the tree seems to say, a new slick leaf unfurling like a fist to an open palm, I’ll take it all." . . It's so encouraging for me to remember that there is always renewal if I am willing to keep on living, to take it all -- the mess and the beauty alike. So for me, ...[this] is going to be a season of a lot of hard processing and growth, and hopefully shedding old habits and thought patterns that keep me from joy and freedom. - @chelsb325 . Thank you Chelsea for sharing that incredible poem and your encouraging thoughts. . Chelsea is an incredible writer and flower expert living in Chattanooga and she is also our fantastic editor 💛 we couldn't do anything without her. We love you Chelsea 💕💕

"I've been a bit down these days so I made myself a list of rules: wake up grateful, fall in love with something everyday (a tree, an expression on a strangers face, the sky, an old car...), do something active, and go on an adventure once a month. Today I'm grateful for a hydrangea I saw on my run, I am grateful for Atlanta, for the greenness of it, and for the other people: runners, bikers, skaters, roller bladers, walkers, and wheel chairers who smile as you go by." -Bonny Jean Thanks @cameliabearheart For sharing your encouragement with the community. I pray that we can all ground ourselves in gratitude today💛

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