words are spells,
use yours wisely

grace & magic

For those who suspect life is happening in the in-between moments — in the ellipses, the exhales, the unremarkable Tuesday afternoons that turn out, years later, to have been everything.

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On curiosity, resilience, and the randomness of it all

For those of us who wonder, persist, and stumble into grace

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curiosity

What if? Why not?

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resilience

continuing on, in spite of

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luck

the luck of the draw


“It is easy to mourn the lives we aren’t living. …
We can’t tell if any of those other versions would of been better or worse.
Those lives are happening, it is true, but you are happening as well, and that is the happening we have to focus on.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

  • “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”
    ― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

Hi, i’m kat

I believe in ordinary days, filled with ordinary magic.

I believe in the mundane, the unremarkable, the unhurried. In small things done with intention. In sufficient. In enough.
I believe that tending is sacred work. That caring is brave. That soft and bold are not opposites.
I choose to be present. To pause. To linger in the in-between. To move through the world gently, and on purpose.
I believe in a kinder, gentler world — and I believe it is built slowly, in ordinary moments, by ordinary people just like me and just like you.

“Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you’ve had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

the liminal

Life happens in the in-between

It happens right here, right now, regardless of how far ahead you can see the path.

I believe the liminal moments matter. The quiet ones. The ones that slip by unmarked if you aren’t paying attention.

I am paying attention.

things I’m pondering

words are spells,
use yours wisely

“sometimes the right thing felt all wrong until it was over and done with.”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

“Here’s the thing about luck…you don’t know if it’s good or bad until you have some perspective.”
― Alice Hoffman, Local Girls

“Do as you will, but harm no one.
What you give will be returned to you threefold.
Fall in love whenever you can.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Rules of Magic