Beliefs learned along the way
Remember that fragrance is a form of time travel.
Respect all living things. Life does not need to look like yours to matter.
Walk gently. The world is alive beneath your feet.
Make room for animals. They know what we have forgotten how to hear.
Follow the sun when it calls you outside, and the moon when it asks you to look inward.
Let scent hold what words cannot.
Pay attention to the weather. It changes the way a day feels.
Keep something wild nearby.
Choose kindness when there is nothing to gain from it.
Leave room for lives you do not understand.
Notice the color. Know the person. Measure no one’s worth by it.
Not every noise deserves your attention.
Love without keeping score.
Let what you learn change you.
Listen to people who have lived longer than you.
Make beauty from what remains.
Let your home look lived in. Perfection has no memory.
Honor the small rituals. They are the ones that become a life.
Burn the candle. Use the good glass. Play the record all the way through.
Leave the world a little softer than you found it.
Take the long road whenever you can.
