When you find out your normal daily life is called “quarantine”

January 20, 2023January 16, 2023 ~ Madison Kennedy

These days, being confined at home, I like to take myself on a walk in the woods.

I don’t do it every day, because since it’s winter time we can get some gosh-awful weather. Definitely the worst is the combined winds + rain. Which for me cancels any thoughts of going out.

I have barely mentioned anything regarding my health issues, other than, I need to take some time off to care for myself… I don’t think I’m ready to write about it yet, but basically what I have is chronic. I am learning to live with it, and do the best I can whilst dealing with that. It sure hasn’t been easy but I’m an optimistic, and grateful person.

So, one of the most important thing in my daily life is to walk. Going into the woods gives me such good energy, it recharges me, connects me to the simple enjoyable things, and the importance of life. It also inspires me to look forward no matter what.

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There’s no place like home.

January 18, 2023January 16, 2023 ~ Madison Kennedy

I love being home !

Where we live it’s such a beautiful and magical place. We have the woods nearby, and a lake, and also a river down… we get to see people riding horses. It’s very French as well, in the sense that it’s a foodie town, so you can find all the necessary ingredients for cooking amazing dishes. The Farmer’s & Flowers market is stunning, definitely worth going out on a Saturday morning for.

My day-to-day life is actually pretty peaceful, and lovely. I romanticize it a lot, which is easy because the surroundings are quite poetic, and that’s why I absolutely hate getting out of my bubble. I get so much anxiety whenever I have to go to Paris, even though it’s like super close and I’m a Parisian-born. Being here feels like we’re away from that madness, it’s delightful 💗

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“This, Madame, is Versailles.”

January 16, 2023January 16, 2023 ~ Madison Kennedy

Cotton candy skies welcomed me in France…

I hate winter, so whenever it’s sunny out, you best believe I’m gonna be out as well. Gotta soak that vitamin D as much as possible in this dark land. I went there with my best friend, who was visiting from Switzerland. Gosh I always miss her so much, I have the best talks & hangouts with her; you don’t need a therapist when you have an amazing bestie.

The palace was so pretty that day, I’ve been here a million times, but never with this type of weather. I was definitely enchanted. The winds were ruthless though, which is why we didn’t go too far out, it was freezing. 💗

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What’s your birthstone ? mine is rock bottom

October 10, 2022October 27, 2022 ~ Madison Kennedy

These are the last of my photos from Les Arcs, in the French Alps. Obviously I didn’t shoot many pictures because I was ski-vacationing, but also we stayed at the same place for the entire week, and it’s just different sets of mountains around. Which is beautiful to look at peacefully, and enjoy, but without the need for any electronic device.

For some reason, the white balance was dreadful… impossible to edit properly because of that. I guess it was too white ? It jammed my iPhone lenses, couldn’t get the colors in order. So I decided to use a film emulator, with grains and what not, and just leave the pictures in plain black and white. I like the grungy results it gave me.

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10 months into 2022 and I only enjoyed like 4 days in total

October 7, 2022March 6, 2023 ~ Madison Kennedy

The last time I went skiing I was about 12 years old… horrible experience. I spent three weeks at Saint-Véran, which is the highest village in France. It’s in the Alps, and I didn’t know back then that I had some health issues, which made living there quite challenging to say the least. I was basically unable to breathe normally the whole time, so any type of physical activity made my head spin, and I would faint.

So you can imagine now as an aware adult, when my boyfriend suggested we go on a fancy ski trip at Les Arcs, I actually made a long face. He loves going to snowy mountains for skiing in the winter, and I managed to escape that activity for the past 4 years we’ve been together… but this year, I couldn’t pass up on it. I said yes, let’s go and maybe it’ll be fun.

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