I’m SO GLAD YOU’re HERE!
My name is Christine. I’m a writer, photographer, literature professor, designer, and host. To put it simply, I’m forever looking for the bits of beauty that hide in the cracks of the everyday.
When I’ve lost my way, I find my way home through beauty. Looking for it, creating it, honoring it. I’m not talking about buying stuff we don’t need or tidy clichés that gloss over pain. I’m talking about beauty that walks hand-in-hand with truth. John Keats said, “Beauty is truth, truth beauty.” To me, truth and beauty are two sides of the same restorative force. It heals our broken places, disrupts power, softens fear, dissolves division, restores our joy.
I find truth and beauty in the wild, in nature, in poetry and music, in the kitchen and in handmade things. Wandering the alpine, resting my hands on aspen trees, growing flowers, making sourdough, creating a welcoming table or a cozy corner, knitting a blanket. Pausing to notice the mundane and the mystical: a full moon swelling over a slab of Utah red rock, the doughy warmth of my boys’ hands giving way to the firm grasp of young men. I used to hide this tender longing. Now, I trust the desire for truth and beauty will always lead me home.
Won't you join me? We've got beauty to create—together.
