inspiration Archives - Bailey Van Tassel

23 Sep 2018

Contentment: My 3 Tips

For a long time, I felt as though something was broken in me. Why can’t I just be satisfied? I want to let that sink in for a minute. There is a pervasive, insatiable, and encouraged dodging of satisfaction in today’s world. Why am I a[...]

03 Jul 2018

Gardening

The First Lesson of Gardening

The first lesson I learned from my garden (yes, we’re still talking about my tiny one pot garden) was that there is no magical recipe. This is my lot in life. To learn this lesson over and over again. There is no perfect. There is no[...]

24 Apr 2018

motherhood

Fighting To Let The “Be Yourself” Thing Happen

I’ve always fought perfectionism and felt extremely strained under my own expectations and wanting to do things conventionally “right”, but also under this desire to be unique and stand out, fighting the conventional. This E.E. Cummings qu[...]