Flawed, we're truly interesting, truly memorable, and yes, truly beautiful.

There is real comfort in being quiet.

You know, sometimes the most direct route isn't the right one. - Jacob

What swells inside me is a love so boundless, I am the sunrise and sunset. I am Liberty Bell in the Cascades. I am Beihai Lake. I am every beautiful, truly beautiful, thing I've ever seen, captured in my personal Geographia, the atlas of myself.

That's when it struck me: how gorgeous we all were, even with cellulite (saw a lot of that) and stretch marks, scars and tattoos. Let me just say this, not single body was perfect, not even the fittest of women there.

Silence, too, can be torture.

I didn't know that the world could be so mind-blowingly beautiful.