When you need that extra boost to get you through your day, all you need to do is sometimes open up your eyes! I learned this when I decided to actively search out the good within one week. I was pleasantly surprised when I didn’t have to search too hard.

How are you feeling these days? You don't really know do you?, well join the club. With all the unknowns floating around the atmosphere, it is hard to differentiate between what is deemed necessary and relevant and what some may consider redundant and excessive.
Sarah sent me a video the other day, that put into perspective how I was feeling. I am going to continue to pick flowers, paint stones and chase rainbows. Because I believe when all of the unknowns eventually fall to the ground I will have a bouquet of hope.

Like a much needed morning coffee, a diverse group of women managed to percolate my imagination, awaken a curiosity I’ve allowed to become stagnant, and brew a new sense of purpose. Leading up to International Women’s Day (May 8th, 2020) this panel of trailblazers shared stories of trials, hope, and following their truths, all with a shared theme of travel. The Travel Corporation out did themselves with the first #TTCIWD talks and panel session. From Left to right: Sarain Fox, Amy Vitale, Patricia Schultz, Nadine Sykora and Roxanne Joyal

What a fun few weeks to be a Canadian, seriously with all that we can be standing up for or against, some of “you people” decided to worry about whether an old school hockey bro should’ve been fired from his job for spewing divisive rhetoric. An individual was actually arrested for vandalizing a cenotaph in retaliation of his firing**. The same ideas Cherry was so adamant he was protecting. Weird. But hey, it was never really about poppies
It was directed at our neighbours, co-workers spouses or parents, the ones who were not born here but relocated for many reasons and live here and make this country their home. The ones the anti-immigrant dialogue was focused on, where did that conversation go? We need to be standing up for them, beside them embracing them.

Anyone else feeling like escaping the everyday? The daily news is at best dismal and at its worst horrific, personally feeling a bit defeated with some business and personal goals and treading water with my mental health. I’ve had the annual Prince Edward County, Firelight Lantern Festival circled, highlighted and starred in my calendar for months, and the timing couldn’t be better! It was the sparkly boost I needed to reset my brain, and remember all the magic in my life. Keep reading for fantasy overload....

Time flies when you are having fun.  Yes this is a pretty general consensus, but it also flies when you are not paying attention to it.  I really can't believe my last post was in April,  five months have passed and I wouldn't even be able to fill a short paragraph of what happened.  July basically didn't exist and the rest of the months surrounding it feel like a distant memory.   I am not going focus on all of the plans I had and broke, what I want to work on is figuring out how to actually implement plans, tasks and to do's.  And to start this..I write. Which was and is still a VERY large ghost in my life.  THIS BLOG IS CALLED WE CHOOSE TODAY, and I literally forgot about today.  Let's get started.