[eltd_blockquote text="“All you need is twenty seconds of insane courage. Just literally twenty seconds of just embarrassing bravery. And I promise you, something great will come of it.” (Benjamin Mee, We Bought a Zoo)" title_tag="p" width=""]   It takes twenty seconds to start packing your bags. Twenty seconds to back your car out of the driveway. Twenty seconds to make that right turn and merge onto the highway. Twenty seconds to open your car door and take those first few hesitant steps towards their front door... A series of insanely courageous twenty seconds can lead you somewhere at first terrifying, [...]

Why does knowledge exist? If you answered “to allow us to discover and create”, you’d be right. If you answered “to help us function”, you’d also be right. You’d even be right if you answered “to prevent us from eating that fifth cookie” (or trying to at least...). In reality, there are an endless amount of answers to this question, but today, with the release of my new image Line Upon Line, I want to talk about one reason in particular: service.     As part of my Daughters of the King Series, this piece represents the Young Womens value Knowledge. Much [...]

I once read somewhere that your 20s are the hardest decade of your life. Being only 26 years old, and with much of my life still yet to be lived, I can’t really say whether or not this is true. I do know, however, that for myself, the 20s have been a rather difficult decade so far, and I’ve only just passed the halfway mark. My story for today begins on a chilly Spring night in April nearly two months ago. I was experiencing what my older self will undoubtedly look back on as an episode of immature, “woe-is-me” sulking. [...]

  In Her Tongue is the Law of Kindness   It’s always a mix of excitement and fear when I release a new piece.   All the weeks (and sometimes months) of hard work spent imagining and creating, conveyed in one image and one blog post. It’s a little bit intimidating to think of what people will see or how they will react when they see my piece for the first time. At the same time, though, I find it to be rewarding in a way. To finally see the realization of what was once just an abstract image in [...]