Stories about finding your heart and soul around the world.

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View fullsize Abandoned but with color.
View fullsize Throwback to mom’s cozy house in Michigan over the holidays. Now back in sunny California, and back to work. Here we go 2020!
View fullsize Pretty pictures from 2019! From Hawaii to the playa, I didn’t post as often last year, but there were some good times and rough ones. Onward to 2020, and all the changes it will bring! . #bestnine2019 #bestnine #happynewyear
View fullsize The road to nowhere
View fullsize Early morning mist and redwoods.
View fullsize I love biking around at golden hour and checking out playa art. Even better when a dust storm comes along making it all feel ethereal. Stumbled upon this funky piano, and someone was playing a tune. Photo from Burning Man 2015.
View fullsize One thing I appreciate about spending a week on playa each year is that the whole experience is a reminder of what it was to be a kid again, a throwback to playfulness. Adult life is chaotic, filled with judgement, fear, greed, suffering, severity. B
View fullsize Dusty wind storm on playa 2018 with @babyjdreams and Happiness.
View fullsize The Man burns in 365 days! 😂 Who’s ready for #burningman 2020?!? (All of us who were stuck in the default world this year, that’s who!) . Photo from Burning Man 2012
View fullsize This was one of my favorite temples. David Best’s the Temple of Grace from 2014.
View fullsize Throwback to Burning Man 2012. Those glorious, dusty sunsets.
View fullsize Such a long week it feels like, missing this place. The only posts from playa I’m seeing seem to be photos of Sparkle Ponies without a spec of dust on them with Russian Instagram captions. Good job to all those other burners out there not usin
View fullsize When I was a kid I had this obsession with wanting to travel and see as many new places in the world as I could. I think I thought that seeing the same place over and over again was boring...? Not really sure that was a coherent thought back then. In
View fullsize When you make a responsible adult decision to not do something because it’s probably the better thing to do and there are other cascading results linked to it, but then you regret the main decision, it kind of helps you figure out what your pri
View fullsize Sunrise on playa, 2015.
View fullsize This is one of my favorite photos from my first burn back in 2011. Such magical, wondrous things to be found out there in the desert... . Alas, due to some unfortunate personal stuff going on this year we are not able to make our annual trip home to
View fullsize “The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It’s our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.” - Brene Brown
View fullsize Throwback to golden hour at our campsite last weekend in the Eastern Sierras. More adventures like this please.
View fullsize It’s hard to wrap your mind around all the thousands of steps your feet have taken. I try to think about all the worlds I’ve walked and a lifetime flickers through memory. . Here is something you probably don’t know about me—I
View fullsize When you find the love of your life, what they say is true: your heart will know. ❤️ . Happy anniversary to this wonderful man. Can’t believe it’s already been two years since our magical forest wedding. It has been a dream.