Snowflakes haiku

 

Snowflakes in the wood
Slow steps on a quiet path
I breathe and I live

Twenty Years Since the Glacier Taught Us to Breathe Again

 

Today marks exactly 20 years since my husband and I visited Patagonia and its breathtakingly beautiful Perito Moreno Glacier. It is quite literally the most beautiful thing we have ever seen.

Visiting Argentina was not just an ordinary trip.

It came after our first failed IVF treatment, which had seemed so promising — I was so sure everything would go perfectly. It didn’t. The disappointment that followed was so overwhelming that there are no words to describe the darkness.

The only thing that helped to heal my broken soul was buying two plane tickets to Buenos Aires and starting to plan our journey. It helped us find joy in our lives again.

Of course, travelling is not a magic cure. The trip ended and we returned to our real lives. But the happy moments healed us, at least a little, and made us stronger to face everything that followed.

Kindness

 

I received this quote from Elaine a few weeks ago, and it meant so much to me.

So I’m using it together with a photo I took today during our walk through a picture-perfect valley in the Julian Alps.