We all have a purpose in this life. To know what it is, well that’s the difficult part. For years I had been praying, asking God what the purpose in life was (mine really). I had just graduated from culinary school a few years earlier and was beginning to pursue a career in art while also working in kitchens as a pastry chef. It was a stunning summer morning, 5 am to be exact, and I was scheduled to work at a lovely vegan bakery, but the doors were still locked. While I waite

About two months into this pandemic, I began to feel extremely restless; the kind of restless where you feel the walls closing in and the air quickly getting thinner. I was fairly new at my job and before I could settle in everything changed—and continued to change for what seemed like every few months. There was stress, confusion, and fear in the air and I didn’t have a release. As soon as the lockdown restrictions began to loosen up, I peaced out to my favourite local trail