Loves! I’m waving from here as I gather my bags to depart for more multi-day, multi-stop travel across Montana

I unfastened my seatbelt, switched my phone off airplane mode and texted him, We’ve just landed!

We’re going to Hawaii

We sliced a section right out of the middle of life, and escaped to autumn in the mountains of northwest Montana, my original home.

The relative quiet of the Ojai valley was so welcome after the thrumming energy of LA.

Life is interesting, isn’t it? How timing and events, curious circumstances and appointments unaware, can come together in a beautiful chronology that you couldn’t have planned if you’d tried?