This tui is standing in two worlds at once. The real one, harakeke leaves vivid and grounded beneath, and the other one, that luminous pearlescent waterfall of light and gold and possibility shimmering behind. Not dreaming anymore. Not quite fully landed either. Right in that electric in-between where everything you hoped for starts to feel like everything that simply is.
This is what it feels like when life catches up to the vision. When you realise you're already living the thing you used to only imagine. The colours shift and glow as the light changes, because that's exactly what this moment does. It keeps revealing more.
Painted with gold, with love, with the deep knowing that what we dream with our whole heart has a way of finding us back.
