Winter arrived in Toronto this month by way of nearly 100cm of snow. Transforming the city into a white landscape with enormous piles of ice crystals.
Dreaming about sunny spring break escapes helps me tolerate and even romanticize winter. As well as all of the things I would pack.
I like looking around on Pinterest and putting outfits together in my mind. Some cute items that caught my eye were crochet shorts and bucket hats.
I also searched up beach vacation bags,
and lace skirts that could be worn over a swimsuit or as a fun outfit option.
While slinking slowly into a rabbit hole of lace options I began to Romanize a version of myself who would wear a long white lace skirt, paired with an oversized soft cotton t-shirt and chunky leather knee high boots with buckles. Then the hole brought me into discovering there is an existing aesthetic for this style and it is called: Moto Boho.
I resurfaced to reality momentarily to text my sister in-law an urgent message that Moto Boho should most definitely be her single this summer style. She concurred. I then sunk back into my hole. Yes, I think I want this to be MY new personality, as an angel, yoga teaching, long haired mama with a baby hanging off my hip. I want to be strong and soft and smart and playful and present and happy and whole. I want brown doe-eyes, life to feel easy and my brain to feel blissed out. I want to sprawl out in the sun and swim in warm waters and kiss my husband hard and long. I want to write and read and pray so hard that I am one in my heart and soul and mind and third eye and I want to be all and do it all dressed in Moto Boho.
There’s something about this time of year where the darkness of things feels soft and smooth and we feel like our whispered truths blow away with the gust before our words are heard so maybe that’s why I feel like whispering this truth to all of you: It took me my entire life to feel the feeling and say that I love my life. And now this truth is so strong and consistent it almost has become my third nature to feel this way. I don’t know who to thank for this feeling I just know I gotta keep it moving and I gotta keep doing the work that matters because baby it matters and it works. And on my vessel I will drape my legs in white lace, my torso with an impossibly soft oversized cotton shirt and dress my feet with thick leather boots and ill stomp all over this beautiful earth and spread my love and magic and pray you join me. Join me, reach up, reach out , WHAT ARE YOU REACHING FOR. Breathe, swallow it up and let it all out until your empty, empty yourself and then fill all the rooms in your house with light. Light and magic and love AND FILL YOUR CLOSET WITH Moto Boho lace and leather and impossibly soft cotton and please remember we are here and we are one and to TAKE CARE of yourself and each other. xo