True beauty.

Beauty is all around us. We see it everywhere and in everyone, but don't forget to look within, to find the beauty that you hold, the beauty that is you. 

Dove has done it again,  masterfully and profoundly opened our eyes to the beauty of ourselves. Please watch and reflect. 

How do you see yourself? What is beautiful about you?

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A great thing.

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Don't get stuck.

I found these words. When I read them thoughts of a certain someone who I care for very much flood my mind. 

Oh, how I wish you would read this, see this, take it in, breath by breath, sentence by sentence and really understand. I want so much for you. You are capable of so much. You are magnificent and beautiful and full of greatness. It must be bursting at the seams to get out, your greatness, that is. When was the last time you let it out? It must be itching for escape. Let it out. I promise, only great things will happen in the end. You are so powerful. You are destined for more. 

"Don’t get stuck. Move, travel, take a class, take a risk. There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming. Don’t lose yourself at happy hour, but don’t lose yourself on the corporate ladder either. Stop every once in a while and go out to coffee or climb in bed with your journal. Ask yourself some good questions like: “Am I proud of the life I’m living? What have I tried this month? … Do the people I’m spending time with give me life, or make me feel small? Is there any brokenness in my life that’s keeping me from moving forward?” Now is your time. Walk closely with people you love, and with people who believe … life is a grand adventure. Don’t get stuck in the past, and don’t try to fast-forward yourself into a future you haven’t yet earned. Give today all the love and intensity and courage you can, and keep traveling honestly along life’s path."

- Author unknown

Small things.

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As you please.

Feeling like I want to do it my way today.

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Note to self.

"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary."

-Cecil Beaton, Note to Self 

It's ok not to know

Be daring.

"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary."

          - Cecil Beaton

Yesterday's you.

It's easy to get distracted in this world. 

Too easy to lose our purpose 

or stray from our path. 

Sometimes we need someone 

or something 

to push us back, 

back on track, 

back on our own path. 

Don't forget who you are are, 

where you're going, 

and what keeps you moving. 

Dangerous Dreams.

All people dream, but not equally.

Those who dream by night 

in the dusty recesses of their mind,

Wake in the morning 

to find that it was vanity. 

But the dreamers of the day are dangerous people,

For they dream their dreams with open eyes,

And make them come true.

          - D.H. Lawrence

Another move, another room

I'm moving again and I'm very excited. :) I'm moving back to the East side with a few great people. I can't wait. The house is great and you know I always love an opportunity to decorate a new space. So I  thought I'd share some design inspiration I've found for the new room. Enjoy!

 

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Today.

Alive to see.

Day by Day

Everything is different 

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Growth.

To Adventure.

You can call me Master

Hi Lovelies, this weekend was a big weekend! I graduated! You may now call me Master McWilliams. That does have a nice ring to it. I am officially done! 

The experience has been an amazing one and I've met some really rad people. I couldn't have asked for a better experience or better people to share it with. So grateful for an amazing year and half.

With that, I'll leave you with some inspiring words of wisdom from Howard Thurman,

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

 

Skinny Love by Bon Iver

Today I thought I would share with you a beautiful piece of music. I have been listening to this band nonstop since I discovered it on Spotify. This song, in particular, is my favorite. Bon Iver was just nominated for four Grammys, including record of the year and best new artist. 

The bands story is pretty cool. The lead singer, Justin Vernon, locked himself away in a remote cabin in Wisconsin for three months while he wrote and recorded all the songs on the album, Bon Iver. 

Enjoy <3

Let go or be dragged.

Sometimes you have to let go.

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Those moments.

You know those moments when life is better than your dreams? When you've imagined something over and over again in your head and that something finally comes true? 

And it's even better in real life?  

I live for those moments. I love those moments.

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