It's the Tiny Things - A stone found in my pocket

Calendar winner from last week! ✨🌙

I put on a warmer coat this week – one I hadn’t worn since last January. The same coat I wore the week we evacuated our home in Los Angeles during the fires and went to stay with family. That first evening after we arrived, we walked down to the beach to watch the sunset.

My family sat on the rocks, bathed in orange light, next to my aunt whom we hadn’t visited in far too long. In that moment, none of us knew how far the fire would spread.

A family approached and asked if we could take their photo – a mom, a dad, and their two young boys. The mother looked at us and said quietly, “We don’t know what else to do. We just lost our home.”

And there it was – the fine line that divides us. A moment in time. A fire breaking out fifteen minutes farther north takes their home, but not ours.

I slipped a small rock into my pocket on the beach that week. Each morning, I’d get up early, walk down to the water with my pug, feel the sea air, and hunt for stones in the sand.

So many things happen in life. You never know what might arrive at your doorstep. While we waited, I stepped outside every day, hunted for little treasures, and snapped photos of blooms. It was calming. And I knew someday, those little things might become something.

There is dark and light. Yin and yang. The sweet and the sour. We can’t stop the pendulum from swinging or decide how far it goes. But we can choose how we respond when it does. We can create a peaceful space in the storm.

I’m grateful I found this part of myself again – the part that loves to make things, to fall into flow, to disappear into the act of creating. The part that surprises me with what lives inside. It is the part I can always tap into when life is a bit more sour than sweet.

Until Next Time 🌙 ✨
Kim

P.S. Down below is a little video of what I created this year - inspired by the fires.

P.S.S. Please put your tiny thing from the past week in the comments. I love reading them. 💛

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This fall, my piece “Nature Makes the Broken World Feel Whole” is part of the gallery exhibit “Searching for Serenity” at Descanso Gardens in Los Angeles. The show was inspired by the Los Angeles fires last January, and I’ve put together a short reel to share a glimpse of my work and the story behind it.

If you’re local, I highly recommend visiting the exhibition, which runs through January 4th, 2026. It’s incredibly inspiring to see so many unique artistic interpretations – there’s truly nothing like a community coming together to show their creations, even in the midst of disaster.