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One of my favourite ways to treat myself lately has been with flowers. × There is something so lovely about having life and colour in my apartment. I used to think it was wasteful but now I find other uses for the petals when they're done and it makes the joy they bring me last a little longer.

I have a desk but this is still how you'll find me most days 😅

Moving with a light heart and open mind 💫 × I quit my job (well one of them) to pursue more of my creative and artistic sides. It was terrifying until I did it and then it was totally liberating. × The past year has been full of surprising transformations, and all of them seem like they will shake my sense of reality but instead seem to be choices that stabilize me in my growth. × We all only have so much space, so much energy. Much like our physical homes that can easily become full and unorganized, so can our schedules and energetic lives. × I had to take a look at what I really want, who I am, what is giving back to me in a meaningful and fulfilling way. Turns out that my focus has been on the idea of security and of knowing where a pay cheque is coming from. I'd inadvertantly moved away from the risk and play that comprises creation and growth. × As soon as I quit an abundance of opportunity and energy I've been asking for came knocking on my door. And inbox and DMs. It's like I ordered a bunch of stuff on amazon but never checked my mail. × I'm really excited to share all of this with you, and one of the beautiful serendipities of it all was this shoot with @justinebarnhart that made me feel like an ethereal angel. I feel like she truly embodied who I've been becoming and what I've found in myself. × Anyway in classic Fo style this has gotten quite rambly but I'm trying to embrace that too. I love words and I think I've learned by now that every time I let myself be a little more free of my own reign that I'm able to touch someone a little deeper, make an impact a modicum more profound. × In the meantime if you've gotten this far thank you for reading and supporting and seeing me. I hope I can do the same for you.

Thank you to my dear pals that came to the book launch + reading last night. It was perfect and I'm so happy to see the new people who feel like old friends that are becoming my community. ~ Spending this snowy day in a cafe reading Wuthering Heights (where I found a receipt for 2010 when I bought the book and read it for the first time!) and being amazed at how much influence I retained from it. From language to emotions evoked - I'm being reminded of my roots of inspiration after having called this book one of my favorites for almost a decade and now being reminded why. ~ I hope that my words can be the same source of inspiration for others and light up passages in you in a new light. Finding kindness and softness under the calloused parts of yourself. I hope you know it's okay to be hard, that it's okay to dig deep as often as you need and that you are allowed to be empowered by what you learn about yourself. ~ I find the introspection of this particular volume to have been found with soft eyes (thank you @patharadalinfoot and @octopusgardenyoga for teaching me what this really means) and letting go of these notions I hold myself in that to have broken parts means to have hurting and jagged parts. Instead I have found so much gold and softness in these parts of me - holding together these parts of me - and I'm grateful to every thing that has let me excavate the beauty of my own mind and being.

My mood as I watch myself take responsibility for my energy and how that positively transforms my present and future from dreams into realities 😎

Having my official book launch and reading this Sunday.. that will also be the launch of Under The Callous EP which I collaborated with @soundslike_audiocrisp for! I made the words and he made the sounds. So excited to share with you all!

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