It's a serendipitous moment when the universe brings together recurring themes. Similar to a recurring dream that you have, I believe that there is a higher purpose and meaning being served when ideas, books, movies, places, and people all resonate together. While the world seems divisive and hostile, there is beauty and kindness in every…
Spring is here! Bird song and daylight savings time have returned, whether we like it or not. I wanted to write a post about spring traditions that I follow, and I realized that I don't have any! There's always spring cleaning which isn't necessarily so much a tradition as a necessity. It feels good to do a…
January 22nd marks the start of the Lunar New Year in 2023! Happy new year! As we bid farewell to the Tiger, we greet the Rabbit which is the fourth sign in the cycle of twelve. It's also aligned with the element of water. In Chinese culture, rabbits are the luckiest out of all twelve…
Refulgence is an elegant word, one that I learned from Final Fantasy XIV. It means shining brightly; radiant; gleaming; a resplendent quality or state. I love the meaning. I've mentioned before that I play Final Fantasy XIV. Throughout all the Final Fantasy game series, you play a character called the Warrior of Light, the hero…
Here is my reading list for 2023. My official commitment is the same as last year since I was so close! I plan to read 20 books. I carried over (sorry, agile terminology) a few books that I think I will be able to hit this year since I received them for Christmas~ This list…
In 2022 I read 19 out of 20 books on my reading list challenge. I read 4 more books than in 2021 and also subtracted 4 books from my 2022 list compared to 2021. I read 10 out of the 20 books from the original reading list. I'll caveat that my goal was closely achieved…
Photo Credit to: Willow's World Photography Fairy-tale Wedding On Friday, October 28th, 2022, Eric and I were married in New Orleans, Louisiana! We did it! I'm so happy! I have dreamed about this moment since I was a little girl. It was everything I could have hoped for. I always wanted a fairy-tale wedding. I…
Picking a reading for our wedding was like searching for a needle in a haystack. There are innumerable poems, quotes, passages, and song lyrics to choose from. Eric and I are non-religious so that cut out passages from the Bible and other religious texts. We decided against song lyrics because most of them are too…
Recently, I've watched a few videos on Youtube that showcased clips from YashaHime, a sequel to an anime from my teenage years called, Inuyasha. The clips didn't particularly interest me, but it did send me down a rabbit hole where I read the comment section...a controversial act indeed that I would normally avoid at all…
I'm over a week late with this post! It's been crazy since the end of September and there are so many errands to run and people to see. We're HALF A MONTH out from our wedding! I can't believe it's almost here. It's been a long year since we started planning, but now time is…
Lily K Borak 