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During a morning run with music blasting in my earphones, a little, old lady taps my shoulder, shakes her map at me, and says, "Can you show me where the Eiffel Tower is?" 🙄1) It's clearly springtime in Paris, and the tourists have arrived. 2) I need to start running a LOT faster. 🏃🏽‍♀️🏃🏽‍♀️🏃🏽‍♀️#Paris #nofilter #livehealthy (at Paris, France)

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I'm giving up buying clothes for a year, so I can fund my yoga habit. Most of us have to make financial choices, but we rarely talk about it. This is my trade. #nofilter #noregrets #yogalife #committosomething #livewell #everydamnday (at Capo rosso, Corse)

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I love friendships that cross borders--that transcend cultures, that start in one country and flow to another, that add up in years the way stamps in a passport add up over time, that are all about honest conversations over good local food in whatever city has the cheapest flights. #consciousliving #everydamnday #parislife #paris #angelinaforver

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This is MY spring solstice. Roots that were buried under the hard soil of winter are starting to feel the warmth of the sun. Ice that covered the highest peaks is melting into sparkling streams. ~For the longest time I've been apologizing to the people who know me best because I wasn't my usual self. They kindly tossed me survival rations as I trudged through feeling like a fuck up. But there were two things I kept doing for myself--writing and helping my body to function to the best of it's ability. #yoga #yogadaily #everydamnday #wellness #healthyliving #becauseimworthit (at Col de Vergio)

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Sunday brunch AND working in a late St. Paddy's day celebration at #umamimatchacafe #healthyeating #healthyliving #becauseimworthit #everydamnday #paris #parisorganic #parisbio

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Dinner is served. Wish I had a gorgeous @speckandstone bowl to go along with this gorgeous salad! #eatinglocal #eatingseasonally #committosomething (at Paris, France)

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Goal: start every day on the mat. #yoga #dailypractice #committosomething (at Paris, France)

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My new go-to afternoon snack are chocolate and almond protein *balls*. Thanks for the #veganrecipes #bohobeautiful (at Paris, France)

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Taxi!

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Tell Cinderella she can keep her pumpkin.

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Your chariot is waiting. #FlorenceDetour

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Gatsby has his billboard; I have mine. #FlorenceDetour

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Bologna Book Fair is exhausting! Have to keep up my energy. BCBF#16

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Spring showers in the Tuileries. Hot chocolate and line edits waiting at home. Hmmm.

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A perfect day to work from home. #snowstorminparis (à The Eiffel Tower / La Tour Eiffel)

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A child doesn’t care if the story is about a white, black, or disabled character. It’s usually the gatekeeper that inserts themselves at an early age into the reading tastes of the young. And we have to ask gatekeepers – from teachers, librarians, publishers, even parents – to recognize their own prejudices and to realize that diversity for all children is a good thing.

–Ellen Oh, Q&A with Ellen Oh, at Bloom (via weneeddiversebooks)

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“I have a real issue with people trying to protect children from their own imaginations”

J.K. Rowling (via youreverythingbetterplan)