she has that quality about her. the one where you can’t help but want to get to know her more. where you laugh  when you’re around her. a lot. the one where you can’t help up want to embrace life to the degree and level of fullness she does. she’s magnetic. and alive. “a gust of wind excites me,” she writes. “whatever I am doing, however i feel about it, in that moment, that is all that exists.” i like that quality–the commitment to the present, to living and living well. and living in a way that is all her own. mini-skirts. sunshine. dark, leafy green vegetables.

he’s creative. the kind of creativity that runs so thick you can see it in the way he notices–how he experiences–things. it’s as if there is too much beauty and splendor in the world to simply blaze through life. he listens. you can tell. and he creates. music, that’s his outlet–a part of his very being. Syndee says “he runs deep. so deep he is like a river the size of the grand canyon. i can feel his many tides. his ebbs and flows and his undertows. that’s why he makes such beautiful music.”

she is syndee. and he is joel. and together they are syndee+joel. together they are better. better versions of themselves, better at what they do, and better at loving well. it’s clearly evident they were purposed for each other. they walk. and bike. they dip their toes in the sand and they concert-go. they jump on their trampoline because they can and because they find themselves wanting to simply have fun, to play, to be. together. because for them together is the best place to be–where they are most alive and where they can be the truest, most authentic versions of themselves.