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making beauty out of broken things
& writing for the bones of our becoming
California ✤ Hawaiʻi
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✦SHADOW & LIGHT ✦

Come meet yourself in the shadows
and leave a little more room for the light…

Sunday, October 25th : 6–8:30 PM
📍 Milou & Olin Collective · Sacramento
🎟️ $44 · limited spots

✤

The Gathering Series
a monthly gathering for women to connect, reflect, create, and remember who we were before the world told us who we had to be

#sacramento #womensevent #sacramentoevents #womenofsac #octoberevents taken in Sacramento, California by @bairdbones

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10 days ago

there are some things we want that we don’t understand,
things we miss that we wouldn’t go back to,
things we love that we cannot keep,
and versions of ourselves we’re still learning how to say grieve,

sometimes we spend so much time trying to make sense of our own hearts that we forget we’re allowed to be complicated, that not everything we feel needs to become a decision, not everything we lose needs to become a lesson, and not everything we love is meant to last forever,

some things can simply be what they are, beautiful and terrible, fleeting and powerful, worth grieving and worth having loved,

this New Moon in Libra is a little reminder that we are allowed to hold more than one truth, and that life doesn’t always have to make sense to be meaningful,

there is both beauty and destruction in this life, and we came here to feel it all, every last damn imperfection ✧

comment LOVERS and i’ll send you a little ritual to sit with this New Moon 🌑💌✨ taken in Hopeless Romantic by @bairdbones

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5 days ago

Some things only bloom in the dark 🥀 taken in In the Shadows by @bairdbones

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5 days ago

some things have to burn
before we see
what was never meant to survive,

& I’ve never been afraid of the ruins,
I know there’s beauty
in the things we leave behind,

moss on the metal,
green through the grey,
even the earth knows,
all things eventually decay,

and perhaps I am no different,
perhaps I was never meant to stay,
perhaps I was meant to wither,
so something new could find its way,

but there are wildflowers in my wreckage,
roots beneath the rust,
and somehow, after all this time,
I’m learning to trust
that what falls apart
does not always fall to dust 🥀 by @bairdbones

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11 days ago

I heard about the Cornell 7 and something in me cracked open….

Seven men,
One woman.

One story that somehow opened the door to a hundred of my own.

So I wrote mine…

Not all of them,
not perfectly,
not even close,
but enough to finally say the things I spent years swallowing down my throat

about every time I said yes when my body was screaming no, about the things I survived before I even had the words to know, about the way shame teaches us to question ourselves before we ever even question the people who hurt us, or how to let it go…

I started writing about what happened to her, and ended up writing about what happened to me,
because this isn’t a story about just one woman,
It’s about all the ways we learn to survive,
& what happens when we finally decide to speak 🕊️ by @bairdbones

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12 days ago

She’s the girl with dirt on her knees and a match in her pocket, & If one things for certain, she’ll never be the one to be forgotten ♈︎

There is something sacred about remembering who you were before the world told you who you should be

The fire didn’t leave,
you just learned how to hide it

This full moon, let her out…

Comment “WILD WOMAN” below and I’ll send the ritual to your DMs ❣️ by @bairdbones

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19 days ago

I took these photographs when I came back to California from Hawaiʻi the last time.

I remember looking toward the horizon and feeling like everything I loved was somewhere beyond it.

I was so homesick in a way I didn’t have words for yet.
Not just for the land, but for myself.

I thought I’d gone backwards… again.

Funny, how little we know about the shape of our own lives while we’re living them.

Years pass,
we become someone else
and then someone else again.

And somehow without realizing it,
the life I thought I was waiting for
began growing all around me.

I found Love,
I made a home,
I got a kitten,
I came back to my he-art (;
I created a gathering of women,
a community,
work that feels like mine,
dreams that are becoming plans.

And now I find myself looking toward the horizon again…

Hawaiʻi has always been there,
not just as a place I love,
but as something woven into who I am.

I am of that land.
She is of me.

And when I return,
I don’t want to go back as the girl
who was trying to escape her life.

I want to go as the woman who has built one she is running toward.

Back toward the ocean,
my roots,
my work,
towards the life I’ve been slowly,
quietly building all along.

I learned time and time again that we don’t always move forward in a straight line,
healing happens in spirals.

Sometimes we circle back to finally understand why we had to leave in the first place, and find that we were never lost at all.

We were just taking the long way home…🌺 by @bairdbones

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20 days ago

the dirt has meaning 🌱

the tallest trees in the forest have spent years growing roots deep enough to hold them…

there is no rushing the becoming,
no skipping seasons,
no blooming without first growing roots…

THE GATHERING: ROOTED
Sunday, September 27th · 6–8:30 PM
Milou & Olin Collective · Sacramento
$44 · limited seats

blooming begins at the roots…

tickets in bio 🌲 by @bairdbones

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a month ago

A love letter to life 💌 taken in Life Is Beautiful by @bairdbones

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a month ago

Well… I guess I did it anyway 🦋

Feeling so incredibly grateful for this night and for every woman who showed up, supported me, trusted the vision, and helped make the very first Gathering so beautiful 🪷

What started as an idea in my head became a room full of women creating, laughing, sharing, dreaming, and remembering how to be human together 🫂

I’m so thankful I get to create spaces like this, and I can’t wait to do it all over again next month 🕯️🌿

This is only the beginning… by @bairdbones

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a month ago

And now I crack my heart so wide open
that I drop to my knees
and whisper to the dirt,
because that’s the only way I’ve ever learned to talk to God…

And she tells me all the answers are within my grasp,
if I would just open enough to trust…

So I water the roots of my soul
and tend to my rebirth,
with faith that what I pour into the earth
will find its way back to me,
when I remember what I’m worth 🐚✨🦋 taken in Rebirthing by @bairdbones

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a month ago

terrified no one is going to come but perhaps we make the world we wish existed by being brave enough to go first 🥹

so here’s me going first

Sacramento girlies, come make something beautiful with me 🪷🌸

The Gathering Series: Returning
august 30th · sacramento
tickets in bio 🤍

come alone!!! most of us are going to be strangers anyway :’)

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