These are the Good Days

Lately, I've been taking care of myself like it's my full-time job. Feeling not quite present? Let's take a half hour alone to meditate. Finding peace in yoga? Buy a monthly pass to a favorite studio and wear that baby out. Think little glittering nose studs are sexy? Get your nose pierced and catch it twinkling happily in the mirror, unexpectedly. Want to have that second cupcake at the cupcake shop? Go ahead, they're tiny cakes for god's sake, eating just one is a ridiculous exercise in ridiculousness.

Long hikes in the woods. Gluttonous magazine consumption. Cooking extravagant dinners.

And you know what all this self-love begets? Love, period. Abundant and overflowing, it demanded a home, so I met with the Volunteer Coordinator at a local nonprofit after-school program and volunteered to tutor kindergarten through third grade kids every Tuesday.

The love, it is swirling all around me. And what a wonderful thing it is.