“Grief Does Not Change You. It Reveals You.”

“Let today be the day you love yourself enough to no longer just dream of a better life; let it be the day you act upon it.”

— Steve Maraboli

the best thing you can do for yourself is focus on yourself and your own healing. not the past; it happened. focusing on the future will make you anxious and could make you scared. you are on no one’s timeline but your own. the good days and the bad days are perfectly normal. you are not a failure. you’re exactly where you’re meant to be. trust the process.

“Don’t say maybe if you want to say no.”

— Paulo Coelho

Stop looking at the walls, look out the window.

ig credit: theslowtraveler.

Art by kloir

Fall Bucket List 2022

Watch 33 horror movies

Make a fall playlist

Carve pumpkins

Eat candycorn

Make spooky cocktails

Spooky bath bombs

Read all Edgar Allen Poe

Go to Scarywood

Seattle horror movie exhibit

Shanghai tunnels your

Watch Over the Garden Wall

Make fall bandana for McMuffin

Make ghost pillows

Make frankensweaters

Watch Tales from the Dark Side

Make creepy dream catchers

Buy fall candles

Make fall face masks

Make mulled cider

Watch Friday the 13th show

Decorate apartment

Eat pumpkin pie

Watch Halloween Wars

New fall wardrobe

Halloween bar crawl

Cool costumes

Watch Cabinet of Curiosities

Bake something

Go to an old graveyard

Halloween party at dads

Go to a haunted house

Watch Wednesday

Read 6 books

Get bloody shower curtain

Halloweentown tour

Haunted corn maze

Roast pumpkin seeds

Pumpkin spice latte

Finish The Walking Dead

Put McMuffin in a costume

Start manifesto podcast

Fall hike

Try 3 weird pumpkin spice items

Make skull ice cubes

Go to a pumpkin patch

Make skill sweatshirts

Restart nwms podcast

Haunted hike

Gloomy beach trip

See Twin Peaks town

Make creepy weaves

3 fall themed dinners

Become a coffee expert

See a ghost town

Stay in a haunted hotel

Go to a concert

Finish Bates Motel

Hike to old plane wreckage

Get a tattoo

Fort Vancouver haunted tour

“The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.”

— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.”

— Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

a telltale heart