When I went on a long vacation (the epic journey that my best friend and I had been planning for the entirety of our lives) this summer all my friends wanted to keep up with me and know what I was doing and a few of them said, “Start a travel blog!” I immediately dismissed this idea, thinking that I could never have a blog. But then as the summer wore on I realized that for the first time I really wouldn’t be seeing some of my friends over the summer, meaning that by the time I see them again it will have been almost a year. And I’m honestly pretty bad about keeping in touch while I’m away. So I started to think about it. A blog really could be a great way to keep everyone up to date on your life.
So now I’ve created this blog, Living for Love, to keep up with friends and family, but also to incorporate a little personal side project along the way. A few years ago I was having a hard time with everything and I noticed that however horrible a day I could be having, sitting in the windowsill in my turret window watching the full moon rising over the sea with my face pressed up against the cold glass was so soothing. Those little moments in life could really bring me back and put everything in perspective. For the last few months I’ve been trying to find one such moment in every day to remind me that life is beautiful. The title comes from the Avett Brothers song Living of Love, which I find so wonderful (“and when they ask you what you’re living of/say love, say for me love”). My goal is to fall head over heels in love with life, to live for love – love of people, love of food, love of the mundane – to find beauty in everything, and to always keep my sense of wonder. I hope that in doing so I will also inspire others to live for love too.
So now I’ve created this blog, Living for Love, to keep up with friends and family, but also to incorporate a little personal side project along the way. A few years ago I was having a hard time with everything and I noticed that however horrible a day I could be having, sitting in the windowsill in my turret window watching the full moon rising over the sea with my face pressed up against the cold glass was so soothing. Those little moments in life could really bring me back and put everything in perspective. For the last few months I’ve been trying to find one such moment in every day to remind me that life is beautiful. The title comes from the Avett Brothers song Living of Love, which I find so wonderful (“and when they ask you what you’re living of/say love, say for me love”). My goal is to fall head over heels in love with life, to live for love – love of people, love of food, love of the mundane – to find beauty in everything, and to always keep my sense of wonder. I hope that in doing so I will also inspire others to live for love too.
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