Emily Evans > Recent Status Updates

"Someday, I want to take you flying over the Rockies early in the morning, when the sun is rising over the mountains and it hits the ridge just right and.... it reminds me of the light coming through the stained-glass windows at the church my mother took me to every Sunday. And I just know you're going to say, That's God."

I do that :,)

“When you’re flying a plane, you can’t see people on the ground. All you can see are the towns they live in and the neighborhoods they fall asleep in. From up there, everyone is so alike, they have so much in common, and they can’t see it… We are each other.”

"When you die, someone will bury you or turn your body into ashes. Eventually, you will return to the Earth. You already are a part of the Earth. What better reason do we have to take care of this Earth and everything on it than the knowledge that we are of one another?”

“Constantly intellectualizing and analyzing our emotions is a way of keeping ourselves from really feeling them… Not everything we feel has to be explained or rationalized. It can just be what we’re feeling—without the story. It can just be experienced.” 🤯