You Only Get One So Make it Count

You don’t have to climb Everest. You just have to show up for your one wild, ordinary, extraordinary life.

This one is the reminder we all need on a Tuesday. The magic isn’t waiting for some bigger, better, more dramatic version of your life to begin. It’s already here — in the morning coffee, the phone call you made, the small brave thing you did when no one was watching.

Bold lime green upper wings scattered with gray, yellow, and lavender — vivid and alive, full of texture and surprise. Soft blue-gray lower wings quiet and steady, anchored by deep purple eye spots ringed in pink like little blooms. A warm brown body rooted at the center, grounded even in flight.

You only get one. You’re already living it. Make it gorgeous.

Original acrylic on 5×5 birch wood block · One of a kind · From the Getting Through the Ugly collection by Lori Friedrichs