29/05/2026
This is me on the last day of a 3 week roadtrip. We stopped 10 minutes into our 12 hour drive home because something was rattling on the roof.
I was already a little giddy, still filled with ocean magic after swimming with so many of the sea’s beautiful creatures in the days before and excited to be heading home to our little patch of paradise and our fur babe.
But when we stopped the sunrise tickled something else in me - a deeper remembering.
Stopped at a roadside parking bay we had an unobstructed beautiful view of sunrise and 360degree colors all round.
I’m the filthiest I’ve been in a looooong time, on the edge of bleeding, my skin still tender after an absolute beating by the sun, salt and a chemical reaction, my hairs wild and barely washed…BUT my god is my heart content.
As Paul fixed the rattle I stood and took it all in and realized how full my heart was from our weeks of the reddest earth and bluest ocean adventures.
Grateful to feel the freedom and spaciousness of simple pleasures and a remembering of how much bookending my days being with the sunrise and sunset enlivens me.
And how important empty space just for life & fun are - no spiritual trainings, no healings, no professional development, no writing courses, no content creation, no scoping out new places to live…just time camping under the stars, exploring parts of this beautiful country I’d never seen before.
Why am I sharing this photo with you rather than the abundance of beautiful nature, sunrise and sunset shots?
I promise they’ll come soon too.
But for now this photo feels precious to me and is one that I’ll treasure for a very very long time.
Why? Because after a long period of heartbreak I feel like a whole me again - and I can see it in my own eyes. Not the me from 10 or 20 years ago, but me right now. And it wasn’t a curated, planned or tried for moment.
It was life offering a nudge to pause and be touched by life. And me available to feel it.
A pause to marvel in the beauty and the vast open space. A space both external and internal.
This time connecting to country has been the most precious of resets. Grateful to feel my place on & in this earth again ♥️