In life, there is always duality. Grief and music. Loss and love. They can exist side by side. One thing I’ve learned is to move through hard moments by embracing both the bitter and the sweet, by bookending the hard with something beautiful. We cannot control what life brings. But when life brings something hard, we can still choose a beautiful act of care: buying yourself flowers, sharing a meal with a friend, sitting with the sunset. You can listen to my full @endwellproject talk through the link in my bio. 🌸
6 years of From Scratch calls for a celebration — and a special announcement… we’re thrilled to hear the exciting news about Tembi Locke’s new audiobook, Someday Now! Swipe to hear all about it and stay tuned for the release on September 30th.
6 years of From Scratch calls for a celebration — and a special announcement… we’re thrilled to hear the exciting news about Tembi Locke’s new audiobook, Someday Now! Swipe to hear all about it and stay tuned for the release on September 30th.
Oohhh, My Mother’s Day is loading early!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️ So incredibly grateful to be with my daughter and share in the inspiration that is the one and only @mstinaknowles and her book #Matriarch!! More on that soon… but for now I’m in these pages! 🔥🔥
Oohhh, My Mother’s Day is loading early!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️ So incredibly grateful to be with my daughter and share in the inspiration that is the one and only @mstinaknowles and her book #Matriarch!! More on that soon… but for now I’m in these pages! 🔥🔥
Happy #independentbookstoreday!! 📚📚📚 Recently, I had so much fun visiting @villagewellcc in the Culver City neighborhood of Los Angeles. There was such vibrant conversation among writers and readers! And I also signed books and they are now available for pickup and shipping. Just call the store!! 😊 ✨✨…Today and everyday PLEASE visit, shop, and champion your local bookstores. 💛
Happy #independentbookstoreday!! 📚📚📚 Recently, I had so much fun visiting @villagewellcc in the Culver City neighborhood of Los Angeles. There was such vibrant conversation among writers and readers! And I also signed books and they are now available for pickup and shipping. Just call the store!! 😊 ✨✨…Today and everyday PLEASE visit, shop, and champion your local bookstores. 💛
Happy #independentbookstoreday!! 📚📚📚 Recently, I had so much fun visiting @villagewellcc in the Culver City neighborhood of Los Angeles. There was such vibrant conversation among writers and readers! And I also signed books and they are now available for pickup and shipping. Just call the store!! 😊 ✨✨…Today and everyday PLEASE visit, shop, and champion your local bookstores. 💛
Happy #independentbookstoreday!! 📚📚📚 Recently, I had so much fun visiting @villagewellcc in the Culver City neighborhood of Los Angeles. There was such vibrant conversation among writers and readers! And I also signed books and they are now available for pickup and shipping. Just call the store!! 😊 ✨✨…Today and everyday PLEASE visit, shop, and champion your local bookstores. 💛
Happy #independentbookstoreday!! 📚📚📚 Recently, I had so much fun visiting @villagewellcc in the Culver City neighborhood of Los Angeles. There was such vibrant conversation among writers and readers! And I also signed books and they are now available for pickup and shipping. Just call the store!! 😊 ✨✨…Today and everyday PLEASE visit, shop, and champion your local bookstores. 💛
Happy #independentbookstoreday!! 📚📚📚 Recently, I had so much fun visiting @villagewellcc in the Culver City neighborhood of Los Angeles. There was such vibrant conversation among writers and readers! And I also signed books and they are now available for pickup and shipping. Just call the store!! 😊 ✨✨…Today and everyday PLEASE visit, shop, and champion your local bookstores. 💛
What if you didn’t have to choose? Between joy and grief. Between missing someone and loving what is. Between the pain of what was and the beauty of what still is. In Sicily, there’s a word for that: agrodolce. Bitter. Sweet. It’s not something to be fixed. It’s something to feel. If you’re holding both today, you’re not doing it wrong. You’re doing it fully. ✨
What if you didn’t have to choose? Between joy and grief. Between missing someone and loving what is. Between the pain of what was and the beauty of what still is. In Sicily, there’s a word for that: agrodolce. Bitter. Sweet. It’s not something to be fixed. It’s something to feel. If you’re holding both today, you’re not doing it wrong. You’re doing it fully. ✨
What if you didn’t have to choose? Between joy and grief. Between missing someone and loving what is. Between the pain of what was and the beauty of what still is. In Sicily, there’s a word for that: agrodolce. Bitter. Sweet. It’s not something to be fixed. It’s something to feel. If you’re holding both today, you’re not doing it wrong. You’re doing it fully. ✨
What if you didn’t have to choose? Between joy and grief. Between missing someone and loving what is. Between the pain of what was and the beauty of what still is. In Sicily, there’s a word for that: agrodolce. Bitter. Sweet. It’s not something to be fixed. It’s something to feel. If you’re holding both today, you’re not doing it wrong. You’re doing it fully. ✨
What if you didn’t have to choose? Between joy and grief. Between missing someone and loving what is. Between the pain of what was and the beauty of what still is. In Sicily, there’s a word for that: agrodolce. Bitter. Sweet. It’s not something to be fixed. It’s something to feel. If you’re holding both today, you’re not doing it wrong. You’re doing it fully. ✨
On this Earth Day, I’m grateful for the ways the earth holds us, especially when we remember to listen. 🌿🌍 Sicily is place where the land teaches you how to live. Where the rhythm of the sea, the soil, and the seasons shape everything from the food on your plate to the stories you tell. In Sicily, nature isn’t a backdrop. It’s a presence. A teacher. A source of beauty, resilience, and renewal.
Jumping in on the trend. (my way) 😊 This is for all the girls who will become women who will grow, transform, inspire and be inspired. POSSIBILITY is yours. You just may not know it yet. Just like she doesn’t know yet that she’s going to become an advocate, a storyteller, a NYT bestseller, and will have her words inspire a Netflix series based on all things that will make her life joyful and hard and stunningly unexpected. ✨✨✨ Girls, I am here to say, you are beautiful possible radiant MAGIC! It is irrefutable. It is history, it is the present, it is the future.
Bookending is the practice of surrounding something hard with something beautiful. ✨ It’s one I’ve returned to again and again.
Bookending is the practice of surrounding something hard with something beautiful. ✨ It’s one I’ve returned to again and again.
Bookending is the practice of surrounding something hard with something beautiful. ✨ It’s one I’ve returned to again and again.
Bookending is the practice of surrounding something hard with something beautiful. ✨ It’s one I’ve returned to again and again.
Bookending is the practice of surrounding something hard with something beautiful. ✨ It’s one I’ve returned to again and again.
Bookending is the practice of surrounding something hard with something beautiful. ✨ It’s one I’ve returned to again and again.