I am a small-town island girl gone mainland urban, passionate about creating because I was created, relishing in my inheritance as an heiress of love and a steward of the earth, daily learning to live in community and to put those I love before me, hourly seeking heaven on earth in order to captivate my fears, a creature of the night cultivating written things or knitted things or green things, often spell-bound and bursting with thankfulness for the love of one particular man, each morning attempting to rise for a new adventure be it organicly grown or kitchen concocted, moment by moment learning to hope in the midst of life with a chronic disease, accompanied frequently by sojourning companions, family, the constant comfort of one lop-eared bunny, and ever, ever, ever yearning to be more deeply rested under Jesus' wing. This is me, on the pursuit of contentment with the simplest of life's wonders.