today, i promise myself to love myself better, celebrate every accomplishment no matter how small, take pride in my emotional growth, and trust that the love i put into the world will be returned to me in extraordinary ways
we were running late and i started to tell my boyfriend about a childhood memory and he was like “dana we really don’t have time for you to feel sad about the past right now”
I know a lot is bad in the world, but I have just learned that when Dolly Parton visits the Madonna Inn, she gets a double order of garlic bread, a large steak, has “magnificent,” ever-changing hair, and is faultlessly sweet to the waitstaff, who she of course calls by name