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“Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back. From then on, you are inflamed with a special longing that will never again let you linger in the lowlands of complacency and partial fulfillment. The eternal makes you urgent. You are loath to let compromise or the threat of danger hold you back from striving toward the summit of fulfillment. When this spiritual path opens, you can bring an incredible generosity to the world and to the lives of others. Sometimes, it is easy to be generous outward, to give and give and give and yet remain ungenerous to yourself. You lose the balance of your soul if you do not learn to take care of yourself. You need to be generous to yourself in order to receive the love that surrounds you. You can suffer from a desperate hunger to be loved. You can search long years in lonely places far outside yourself. Yet the whole time, this love is but a few inches from you.“ - John O’Donohue

This is one of my favorite quotes from Anam Cara and it perfectly describes how I feel about this space. Having my own website/blog has been a dream about 15 years in the making. It started back in college when I was studying journalism. Blogs were just beginning to gain traction and I had this grand plan that I would create one and use it to save the world, one post at a time. We were required to take a website design class and it was the most challenging class I’ve ever taken. To this day, hearing the word “Dreamweaver” gives me chills. I did enough to pass the class and then quickly gave up on it. Maybe the digital space wasn’t for me? Who am I to have a website?

A few years later, I created a Tumblr account. Is Tumblr still a thing? I called it “Inspiration in Unlikely Places” and again had this grand plan to share quotes, pictures, art- anything I found inspiring and/or brought me joy. I set it up and then never posted. Again, imposter syndrome kicked in. Who am I to share inspiration? 

Fast forward to now. I don’t know if its the pandemic, sobriety, getting older or a combination of all three, but that fear is no longer the loudest voice. Instead, I hear:

Who am I not to have a website? 

Who am I not to share inspiration?

Who am I not to create and sell art?

And it feels really good. I know I can’t save the world but I can try to bring a little joy to it. I don’t know what this space will evolve into but I am excited and open to whatever comes. Thanks for being here. Xo