The Girassol Journal 🌻

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” The first time I heard this quote, it stopped me. I remember feeling an almost urgent need to write it down, like I was afraid the meaning might slip away if I didn’t capture it immediately. Weeks later, I heard it again. I couldn’t help but wonder if the Universe was trying to whisper something to me. Was I getting closer to understanding my purpose? The day you find out why. Th

While sitting quietly in the grass with my dogs, I noticed something simple: my two knees telling the story of the past two years. What began as a reflection on injury and recovery became a deeper realization about how healing truly happens, both in the body and in life. Just like our bodies rebuild themselves step by step after an injury, our personal growth also unfolds in phases, often quietly and unseen.

A wall clock that had lived in the same place for nine years moved across the room and yet months later my eyes still look for it on the old wall. A quiet lesson about how our minds adjust to change.

What if some of the things you longed for have already arrived… just in a different shape than you expected?

There’s a moment in migration when a bird belongs nowhere. Sometimes our lives enter that same sky - the quiet crossing between who we were and who we’re becoming.

My dogs don’t understand why we can’t go on our usual winter walks. But their hopeful eyes reminded me of something deeper: sometimes the doors that stay closed are quietly protecting us.

I’ve always found it fascinating to revisit a movie or reread a book years, sometimes decades, after first experiencing it. The story stays the same, but you don’t. And because of that, the meaning shifts. I recently picked up a book I first read as a teenager, then again in my late twenties, and now once more. I have a habit of underlining passages that speak to me. Every time I turned a page and saw those faded lines, I couldn’t help but smile at the girl I used to be. I th