Promoting anything other than kindness and humanity right now feels strange. But as a kind human, I just want to remind everyone that we are all capable of compassion and empathy and grace towards those we come in contact with during any type of hardship or great devastation. That can be harder to find when the world feels like it’s upside down and falling apart… But it’s still inside all of us. So let’s not forget that when you see people whose job requires them to publicly do, or share something else during times like these. Let us not leap to judgment. Sharing something unrelated, or even something positive, does not take away from the tragedy. And it doesn’t mean they’re ignoring it.
It just means that it takes a lot to be a human, and we are all trying our best to move through the world.  

Everyone processes grief of all kinds in many different ways, and not everyone has the capacity to verbally express their feelings in the same manner as others. Some people go inward when they’re scared. Some scream out. Some deflect.
It’s all ok; we are all differently the same.

So let’s all try harder to allow space for each individual to do what they need to do in order to pass through.
And continue to put out what we wish to breathe in.

x x x

October brings a lot of joy into my heart. Lately that joy has been harder to access because of the news we are waking up to every morning, but generally speaking – October is lovely in my book. And it’s just plain hard not to correlate the month with chocolate. So I thought the timing seemed relatively fitting to share this decadent DIY peanut butter cup recipe.

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