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Ashley Bethard

Ashley Bethard

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new view, who dis?
Just a picture of me & all my baggage.
My sweet baby angel ✨ • • • 📷 @mrskyblurr
This is 33. This is having the courage to step into something bigger, even if I don’t quite know what I’m doing. This is trusting my gut. This is intuition sharpening. This is I don’t need or want to be liked — I just want to be surrounded by my people, good people. This is taking a chance on strangers, no matter where I’m passing through. This is choice. This is care with how I spend my time. This is working on being a little bit better in every way. This is knowing the biggest mistakes have the most important lessons, and some of the best damn stories. This is investing in myself, but not taking myself too seriously. This is definition and expansion — sounds contradictory, but so am I. This is who I am. This is loving myself a little more, imperfect as I am, every single day. This is street voguing at night in a city away from home. This is big moves, a whole big mood. ✌🏼 • • 📷 @mrskyblurr 💜
I hate grey days overrun with rain, but I learn to appreciate them in the right context. I help build a fire in the woodstove for my mother. Put on the leather gloves. Carry in the armful of wood. Ball up last week’s newspaper. Separate the kindling. Flick the lighter. Close the door, pull the vent just under halfway open, cross myself. Pray. I can deal with the springtime chill as long as there’s warmth. I am not Catholic but my mother is lapsed. I have memories of church with my grandmother, pulling down the kneeler, my eyes traveling the room, following the rituals of movement and sound. Open the hymnal. All rise. Open your mouth to sing. Please kneel. Cross yourself. You may be seated. What are we ever doing but building warmth, creating a fire to huddle around?

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