My Life on Tuscawilla in Pictures, A Retrospective: 2014 to 2024

Dear Friends and Followers,

I took the time last evening to finally update my photography page as it has been years since I last updated it. I have been posting the photos to Flickr on a regular basis, but I wanted to share them all here as I am disabling my Flickr account. 

Looking back over the past decade of my life here on Tuscawilla, I must say that it has been the most beautiful, wonderful, magical time in so many ways- to be immersed in nature in such an incredibly gorgeous place in space and time. I feel so incredibly blessed and fortunate in countless ways. I count my blessings every day. 
Of course at the same time, it has also been the most challenging time yet as I have also (over)shared far too many times. 

I suppose that it would be accurate and also cliche to say that it has been the best of times and also the worst of times. It seems that such is life- you take the good, you take the bad, and there you have: the facts of life. It is a sad and beautiful world full of wonderful, joyous moments, but also so much pain and suffering at times. 

I am more fortunate than most other people in the world even though I have been in survival mode and barely hanging on at times. It has been mostly because I love my homeplace and surroundings so much that I would really love to stay here for at least another decade. I have planted and cultivated so many wildflowers that I would love to watch grow. I would love to start my native plant nursery, Swamp Flora Farm, and get back into my woodworking side business, Tuscawilla Skyline Design, and just try my best to live a simple, peaceful life and be kind, thoughtful and helpful to others as much as I can. 

I have felt overwhelmed for many reasons, and I have also been suffering incredible loss- my father, my dear sister, Mary, my fur baby and BFF, Deebo, and also even my sense of community in a place that I have lived for a long time, and that I have always loved.
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​I have also been working through incredible historic trauma and also current complex trauma as well, so I have not really been myself the past few years. I am feeling much better and more optimistic now thanks to the many tools that I have learned in the past handful of years. 

Thank you all for understanding and for being kind, thoughtful, compassionate, considerate and forgiving of me and my many imperfections. I am doing my best, but aren't we all..
It is a wild and crazy world, life and ride, so I think it is so important to forgive and forget and to be kind to ourselves and to others as best we can. I am really trying to be the change that I wish to see in the world even though it does not always come naturally to me. 

Thank you so much for reading and for caring. 
Thank you so much for taking the time to see the world and my life through my eyes the past decade. I am so grateful and blessed. 

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Love, me 

​Here is a gallery of some of my faves: