Hi everyone! I hope you are having a wonderful summer. It’s hard to believe it’s already August.

I ran across this quote over the weekend and immediately wanted to share it with you. Author and naturalist, Diane Ackerman, creates a wonderful image of how we can have a love affair with life, without reigning in our creativity and curiosity. See what you think:

“The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one’s curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred, climb aboard, and gallop over the thick, sun-struck hills every day. Where there is no risk, the emotional terrain is flat and unyielding, and, despite all its dimensions, valleys, pinnacles, and detours, life will seem to have none of its magnificent geography, only a length. It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.”

Does this quote by Diane Ackerman speak to you? Are you ready to climb aboard?

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Thanks for reading! xo