"Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and perhaps listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself that you tasted as many as you could." -Louise Erdrich

via the ever lovely blog The C-Word

Yea, I'm trying to make strides. Malibu is a bit of a lonely place. I can't even begin to describe the various conversations I've had with people about the exorbitant amount of "alone time" they have. It's a place where you can pretty get what you want when you want it... but there are so many solitary souls roaming around here.

I've been taking it all in.

Writing, running, hiking & singing. (yes, I've suddenly taken up music again.)

I've been taking in the beauty of Malibu and its surrounding areas every single day. If I have so much as a few free hours, I'm throwing on my sneakers and getting outside. It's amazing and so freeing.

Stealing lemons and clementines from Hannah's yard post-hikeTopanga CanyonTrancas NurseryMalibu Dune Cleanup <3