Today meant a handful of good hearted, southern, Nashville welcomes from strangers who will soon enough be friends.

I'm grateful that I have people who love me so well from so far away that will send out mass FB messages and make phone calls and introduce me to people here just so that I can be a part of something and not alone.

It's summertime in TN and it's hot and the backyard is full of fireflies {it's almost awe-inspiring there are so many dancing, dancing, dancing...}and it smells like sweet basil and I'm happy.

Already I've been eating too much granola + yogurt, consuming too much local honey, and drinking too many chai teas.

Everything's turning out perfectly fine.