Link Love : September

 A Letter from Fred by Green Shoe Studios on Vimeo

Link Love is a monthly series featuring my favorite links and bits around the interwebs.

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Creating with a Kid via Alisa Burke.  
"Teaching art is truly my passion and I've spent a lot of years sharing with students how to let go, get messy and lose yourself in the process. While I have loved every single moment of teaching, nothing compares to the absolute joy I get from fostering creativity in my daughter, Lucy." I've been thinking a lot about motherhood and creative work, so I'm bookmarking this one for future reference.

Julie+Nate // Portland Engagement Session via Phil Chester. 
Such a beautiful, textured, and emotive engagement photo set, and I adored the Oregon backdrop, of course.

The Habits Of Supremely Happy People via Huffington Post.  
"The pursuit of pleasure, research determined, has hardly any contribution to a lasting fulfillment. Instead, pleasure is "the whipped cream and the cherry" that adds a certain sweetness to satisfactory lives founded by the simultaneous pursuit of meaning and engagement."

Live Slowly via Wikichen.  
"There’s a peace in the mundane and the silence and the immediacy of the moment that brings about questions I never thought to ask myself, having always been caught up in the hustle and bustle of modern life. I stopped making time to take life more slowly, to see things more clearly, to spend time more casually. I stopped living at the cost of my happiness. Why do I always need to be going somewhere?"

Caramelized Fig Ice Cream via Happy Yolks.  
"I share this with you, friend, because I know that little girl is looking for you right now. She is bounding down the aisles of your life to tell you, remind you, that despite your brokenness, you are a bright shining light in this world. You are worthy of joy and happiness. Despite your mistakes and wrong turns, you deserve the sun and the moon and all of the stars." 

Not Everyone Will Agree with this Food Philosophy via Paige Lysaght.  
A refreshing and honest post from a health coach admitting that it's not always easy to be health-minded. 

Growing Your Family Through Love via Living on Love.  
"This is where we met James. James was the smallest, most energetic student in my first first grade class. And one day at recess he asked if I would be his mom. As it turned out, James had always needed a mom. In all of our dreaming, Chris and I hadn’t yet thought much about becoming parents, but here was a little boy, who needed a family. It seems sometimes your dreams choose you."

Surviving Whole Foods via Huffington Post.  
"Whole Foods is like Vegas. You go there to feel good but you leave broke, disoriented, and with the newfound knowledge that you have a vaginal disease." HILARIOUS.