Alison Malee

This post is sponsored by Nature’s Way® Motherhood is messy and staggeringly beautiful. It is overflowing with great joy, laughter, tenderness, and immeasurable responsibility.

You can be a great many things.

How do you define family? Is it a limited view? Is it blood and blood alone?

Dedicate a specific amount of time each day to it, channel your love and your creativity into it, build it from the ground up.

Beauty can, should be, and is whatever we say it is.

the sky is only the highest you can reach if you do not accept the possibility of potential beyond what is known to your own two eyes. 

i have loved you for an instant. for every instant. for a lifetime. 

Remember, that this day, this hour, will never happen again. Take each moment as it comes and be present.

I hope someday you feel so loved that there is no room in your life for this kind of hurtful energy.

I want to learn to embrace the parts of myself that often make me feel alone, that often make me want to isolate myself further.

Stop seeking validation from other people. Your worth is not, and never will be in this life, based on what others think about you.

What I would give to know you, know your face, know your hands. To feel the electricity between us and know it cannot be anything but the forever kind of love.

The entirety of me is not easily swallowed. I am a jigsaw, a complexity, a meal with endless courses. That is to say, I need a lover who loves hard. A lover who loves wholly, who embraces my flaws and cherishes my shortcomings as well as my strengths.

I was watching myself through smoke and mirrors, seeing the way I was wasting away but unashamed, unaware that some of that breakage would be unrepairable.

Nothing in this world can weigh you down if you simply choose not to grab hold of the anchor.

Today, I would tell myself, today I will smile.