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Well we made it. With the whole move, then settling in, then everything changing as school let out and summer began, it's been hard to make time to come here and share. However I have been working very hard to manifest my dreams and hopes for my life and future, and one of the things I want to do is create more time to create.

So here I am. Creating. On the beautiful island of Kodiak. I will make the time to share more in the traveling part of our journey, since it did take over a day and we packed a lot into that experience. But this move has been so wonderful. And hard. And fun. And every emotion and feeling in between. It's great for O to have her cousins to play with and learn from, but it's also hard since they are raised and parented differently than how I do. I can definitely see her picking up some bad habits, but also some good ones. And I too have picked up different habits, whether good or bad depends on your perspective, that mainly pertain to parenting. In the end, we will all be okay. It's not forever and I'm thankful for having had the opportunity to come all this way. It's a constantly changing time and place, making it hard to establish rhythm and routine, but hopefully some sort of structure will emerge and grace us all with the stability and comfort that, in my opinion, is dearly needed here.

I am manifesting many other dreams, that still touch on creativity, and I would love to share all of that here when the time is right.

The photo above is from a place called White Sands Beach here in Kodiak. Most of the beaches on the island have black sand. We had a BBQ with many friends on Memorial Day, some of the children even went swimming in the ocean. It was such a lovely time together. Thank you for reading, thank you for supporting.

Love and dreams,
Naomi

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