inflammation — Hannah Elise Schultz

Adventures in
Serendipity

— Hannah Schultz (biographical name): a Kentuckian, traveler, PhD student, hiker, environmentalist, and Great Pyrenees enthusiast

When despair grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting for their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

— Wendell Berry, The Peace of Wild Things

What's It's Like to Have Chronic Facial Eczema

For any of you who have eczema—especially an eczema that you can't hide with clothing or makeup—know that you aren't alone. Know that someone else understands the anxiety over staying at a hotel or walking into a Bath & Body Works. Know that someone else understands the sleepless nights and four-times-the-recommended dose of allergy medication. Know that someone else understands the itch or what it feels like to watch your own skin slough off no matter how much lotion you put on it. And know that you are worth more than your skin.

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Adventures inSerendipity

— Hannah Schultz (biographical name): a Kentuckian, traveler, PhD student, hiker, environmentalist, and Great Pyrenees enthusiast

Adventures in
Serendipity