A dear friend made me realize that I need to maintain my creative outlets to balance my emotions, mental state, and physical well being.  It’s been hard feeling like I’m ready to veg out on the couch and let myself feel sad but also stay on  track with what I do need to do.  Maybe this is also a way that Khoa is pushing me to keep up his creative spirit.  He loved taking pictures and had a knack for taking amazing landscape and portraits on his travel.  Here I am, picking up the camera and pen again.  

A friend from high school actually reached out to me this morning, telling me she had been meaning to reach out to me and now she’s on the same boat of grief as me.  It’s so crazy how this plane of life brings people in and out of your life and I can’t help but be grateful.  Khoa was loving, nurturing and caring in all ways and this also reminded me of him because it’s something he’d do and exactly what he did for me that night of the retreat we attended together.  

Though my friend and I don’t keep in touch often, she always comes into my life unexpectedly but also when I needed it most and for that, I’m grateful for both her and Khoa <3.  

Like Yosemite, it opens its valley to all walks of mankind.  It weathers the ups and downs that Mother Nature throws its way, and yet it still survives and lives up to its expectations of beauty, wonder, and adventure.