I currently call Hoi An, Vietnam home, but I am always willing to travel.

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I'm not entirely sure where my head's been, but today I realized I live in Vietnam. And I'm quite thrilled about it. Fishing village. Vietnam. "What if we could develop a new way of seeing the body that reveals that we are always already touching, that we are inextricably linked to a larger institutional and social body that binds us all?" - George Yancy for the NYT A lot of days I wish I could give myself a disciplinary hand slap. Like when I decide I need to "get out of the house" and run errands. On a bicycle. At 1pm. In 95+humidity weather. 🤦🏻‍♀️ (Hence me sitting here, looking at this photo and pretending I'm not a tomato.) Fish on fish on fish. A man and the sea. Sunrise in a fishing village outside of Hoi An, Vietnam. Lately it feels like every time I photograph is a straight up education. I've been arriving at scenes without a specific plan as to what I want to capture, what story I want to tell (this isn't easy for someone who likes control). Overall, the process has been both freeing and humbling - mostly thoughts along the lines of, "I don't know what I'm doing, but I know I'm here." And guys, seriously, how rad is it that merely having a camera allows me intimate moments with strangers around the world?! As seen from my doorstep, again, biking into that magic light. #spellyrelocation2017 Night riders. Today I went on a fairly long solo motorbike ride to a nearby village and thought to myself, "this is what I'm MADE for!" -- and then proceeded to sing "country road..", out loud, while driving through rice fields. Does this ever happen to you? Also this photo is from a separate trip, where I didn't bike at all. They call them "summer rains"... 😳😐 Celebrating another year around the sun for this man, this year in Vietnam. You won't be surprised to hear he's spent his special day swimming, eating and watching art documentaries. Couldn't be more thankful for the life of @spennywoodsculptures , who continues to help me refine my character as he humbly lives to refine his own. Cheers to you, babe! 🐠💙🍟👱🏼🏃🏼🕺🏼👫🐸🐸🦎🦎 Thanks to our gem of a landlord, this lovely man comes daily to water the plants in our yard. He even waters our street. 👍🏼🌱🌿🌷 Sometimes being a Western woman comes with unfortunate stereotypes- many of which I now am seeing afresh, viewing them from a new perspective. For example, some believe that all Western women are loose with their bodies and have low moral standards. I know that not everyone believes these stereotypes, but when you watch Western tv shows, look at our advertisements, study the many public figures we deem popular and important, it becomes difficult to blame people for falling for such misconceptions. Today I had a highly uncomfortable encounter that reminded me that our world can be dark and humans are all too susceptible to the lies we feed each other. Though this encounter could have occurred anywhere in the world, including the West, the fact that it happened in a place still unfamiliar to me reminded me that everything I do, say, wear, etc. sends a message- I tell my own story. So, what IS the story I want to tell with my life? A brief morning spent hiking to temples and checking out the catches of the day on Cham Island. Morning 🐟🐠🐡 haul. Started teaching English to kiddos in China today. Boy oh boy did it leave me missing all of my rockstar brothers and sisters in Spokane who are daily working their tails off to learn English and adjust to an entirely new way of life. #matchingshirts Mid-morning (6am) friendship time in a local fishing village. We've now lived in Vietnam for nearly two months. Time is an absurd thing- and I often don't know if I'm too caught up in the moment, or too focused on the future. Either way, God is good and revealing himself to us in new ways every day. Also, this is the wall scrapbook I'm building in our "dining room". #spellyrelocation2017 Saw some stuff today. #spellyrelocation2017

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