Ella Ceron

Those hundreds of miles of coastline mean that playing hooky every once in a while, foregoing store-bought salt spray for real beach hair, and — yes— justifying how you need to buy just one more bathing suit, is all in the name of better health.

All of my best photos involve both you and me, because you actually make me laugh while we’re taking it.

I’m not saying you should willingly run yourself into the ground, but if you can manage to figure out the phoenix-rising-from-the-ashes plan in case you ever need it, well, you’re better off than a lot of people with no exit strategy at all.

Don’t be afraid to tell people that you love them.

Maybe we’re only ever just hoping for a little more hope, a little more reason to keep going, another little sign that they might care, that all of this effort and love and affection was not in vain.

Hi, I love you: I’m bored, talk to me.

To jump off cliffs into the ocean water below, to pose for the leaping photos in fields, to cartwheel in the park – even (and maybe even especially) if it’s a bad cartwheel — to skip down the sidewalk if she wants to, no matter who is looking.

A relationship is a two-way street, and if someone doesn’t like you or isn’t in a space to date, chances are good that it honestly has little to do with you, and more to do with where they are in their life, too.