I love her more than I ever thought possible, and what I’ve come to understand is that the love she has taught me to give is a different thing entirely from what I thought love was before her.
She lives life with an open heart and a true undying passion to feel every single bit of it, and she does it without armor, without apology, without holding any part of herself back from the world. She is the creative force of the universe, feminine chaos and creation that you have to stop trying to predict or contain and just trust with everything you’ve got, because it resolves into beauty and magic every single time. I used to try to keep up with her. Now I understand that the work is to be present enough to witness it and to keep choosing her in the fullness of who she actually is, not a safer or smaller version of her.
She has grown me in ways I didn’t ask for and wouldn’t trade for anything. Loving her radically, showing up for her fully, learning to stay open when everything in me wanted to close, that is the real work of my life and she has made me want to do it. She called out a version of me I didn’t know was in there and she continues to do it every day. That is what she does, not just for me but for everyone in her orbit.
We’ve built businesses, traveled the world, taken hundreds of photos and made thousands of videos together, and we have genuinely lived. These photos are the ones that never made it out, the unfiltered ones, the in-between ones, the ones where she is laughing too hard or crying happy tears or just being fully, completely herself with no performance in sight. They are the truest portrait I have of her because she is a person who lives so honestly that even her candid moments are more beautiful than most people’s best ones.
She deserves to be celebrated for exactly who she is, every single day, and today especially. I am so grateful, and it is my honor to be the man who gets to stand beside her.
She is everything.
Happy birthday. ♥️
