via. I've been in a stupor for the past several days, unable to function much aside from being glued to weather reports and pray endlessly for relief for a land and people I love so much. The inundation of the Gulf Coast is heart-wrenching, unprecedented... it would be completely unbelievable to fathom 50+" of rain falling in four days if our TVs and computer screens weren't drowning in the now-familiar...

via.  (obsessed with this adorable print.) hey, hey, hey... how's it going? Just like that, August is here. I'm skedaddling off to for a long overdue trip home to Texas next weekend, and my heart is just so happy. While the summer in Nashville has been pretty brutal, heat-wise, the days have been good to me, and I know my time at home will just add endlessly to that bucket of gratitude. But...