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I'm Gennean, a digital content creator and wandering wild heart who is passionate about travel, a good cup of tea, all things Harry Potter, and keeping it real.  You can find me writing all of the things over on my blog, hosting a little podcast called Wild Hearts, and capturing beautiful people and places from behind the lens of my camera.

 
 
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» Making it home ✨ this new place of mine is quirky and perfect and I couldn't feel more at peace in this space. So yeah, let's make it official: you're all invited to come hang with me at the burrow🌿
» Said another goodbye to my homestate last week, but not after spending time in the Bay, the City (SF), Sacramento, Plumas National Forest, and Lake Tahoe, hugging as many necks as I could in the few days I was there. Suffice to say the last few weeks have been an absolute whirlwind. I mean, it was only about two weeks ago that I was living life in London, and now that I’ve driven across the country (with my grandma, no less) and am settling into this next chapter of life In Nashville, it feel as though I can finally take a deep breath and 🌿 R E S T See, when you spend two years traveling and staying with friends and family in different parts of the world, it’s a huge blessing and you learn so much about yourself and humanity and life in general, but it also means you don’t have a space that you can truly call yours. And that is exhausting... beautiful, but exhausting. So now, to finally have a space that is mine — all mine — well I’m sure you can imagine that I’m pretty much completely beside myself 🙈 all while remaining so very grateful for all that I've done and learned from my season of wandering the world. But wow I cannot wait to have friends, family, and fellow wild-hearted travelers come visit me and this space I get to call 🏡 home! Don't worry, though. I'm still a wee wild heart who won't will always be about that travel life. Case in point: I just booked a flight to Denver to see my girl @travelbrinkley soon soooo can't stop, won't stop 🙌🏼
» Dear London,
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Thanks for being home to me for five glorious weeks this summer. I loved every bit of our time together. 🌦 Thanks for your rainy summer days (seriously so much rain), for your big red busses (and all around great public transit system), and your abundant selection of out-of-this world Indian food. ☕️ Thanks for the days spent writing in cafes in Holborn and Carnaby Street, for the nights spent drinking and dancing in Brixton, and the many leisurely walks through Notting Hill and Hyde Park. 💃🏻 Thank you for being a place I know I can (and will) always come back to, because you house some of my favorite people. Take good care of them. 🌿 And thank you for reminding me that home can be wherever you make it. In a special way, you helped me prepare for my new home in Nashville, and for that I am so grateful. 💂🏼‍♀️ Love you always, London. PS. on a completely related note, where can I get some quality Indian food in Nashville? Because ya girl is never not craving some tikka masala, dhansak, and garlic naan 🥘
» Hi friends! I’ve been fairly quiet these last few months while I’ve been back in Europe, but nowhere more than here on instagram. Where it feels like (aka. society would say) I should be posting all of the things because I’m “living the Europe travel dream” — which, to be fair, I posted a lot while here last year — I just haven’t felt like it this time around. Last summer was all adventure (almost) all of the time. I saw, did, and learned so much gallivanting across Europe, and I wanted to share every bit of it with y’all. I’m so grateful for that incredible, life-changing experience, and I am so thankful that so many of you continue to reach out with your travel questions. Please never stop sliding into my DM’s, you guys. This trip though. It’s been beautiful in its own way, but very different. Instead of changing locations every few days, I’ve spent a week or more in every city I’ve visited. From Paris to Edinburgh to Annalong and more, I learned to live life in each place. And doing so in London for the last month has been really good for me. To have some routine and normalcy after almost 2 years of not having either has been the most unexpected joy, and is only getting me more excited to nest into my own space in Nashville in a few weeks! But the last 4 months have been full of the kind soul searching that feels appropriate for a woman on the verge of 30: I’ve asked more tough questions, discovered new and beautiful things about life and humanity, I’ve grown in some ways and faltered in others, I’ve found myself in uncomfortable but necessary mental and emotional spaces, I’ve worked to find good and beauty in each day. That has looked like less sharing on social media and I am 100% good with that. This time abroad been humbling, hard, and more fulfilling than I thought it would be, which I am beyond thankful to my Pops for. He continues to astound me with His (truly) boundless grace, and as I look forward to my last few days in London, I want to remember to be present and continue to look for His movement… because I’ve found that when I seek, I really do find. [more in comments]
» Wow for real all I can say is y'all the best. Thanks for "sharing the good" with me on a day when I needed the reminder that there is always, always good to be found (see stories). Now here is some of my good today: Y'all 🙈 This glass of rose 🍷 A new book getting me pumped to live on my own BLESS UP FAM 🏡 A perfect summer night in London 🇬🇧 Finding peace in Jesus 🙌🏼 Friends who are basically my family texting photos of their newborn baby who I'm already obsessed with 💕 My new favorite enneagram 4 account @the_romantic_individualist 😂 And the giant bowl of chicken tikka masala I just finished off 🥘 — Finding and sharing the good really isn't that hard if / when we just remember to look for it, am I right? And now I'm reminded of one of my favorite Dumbledore-isms, which seems a proper way to end this post: ⚡️ Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if one only remembers to turn on the light✨
» Daaang y'all. So I've somehow been blogging for 10 years now — I know, I can't believe it either — and if there's one glaring truth about blogging it might be this: the landscape of the online writing world has changed drastically over the last decade. And with that, so have some of my opinions, writing choices, and even my faith. Today I'm sharing more on my blog about my history with blogging, why I've been so quiet lately, and some of the reasons I'm excited for the next chapter of life! 🙈 ⌯ Yo but like I’m real excited about this one, so ch ch check it out — link in profile!✨