Taken with an IPhone 6s

                   This Was The Year.                           This was the year I didn’t see coming - the one that shook me out of complacency. When I learned to stop being compliant, to demand what was rightfully mine, refuse to settle for anything less than what I deserved. I lost patience with small talk, fell in love with midnight conversations. I crossed deserts and oceans with the man I love at my side, as we lived out of suitcases, drunk on life and laughter. This was the year that came with gentle tap on shoulder, reminding me who I was and what I could be, if only I’d just open my arms and let the light in, stop overthinking and start living. Give myself the permission to fall as long as I got back up again. I held the ones I love, closer - let go of the things that weren’t meant to be mine. I looked my past dead in the eye and said, you aren’t welcome here anymore. Chased away the cobwebs that I had let linger far too long. Told the moon I was sorry - this is now my time in the sun. - Lang Leav