Onward

Hello! It's been a hot minute. 8 years. 96 months. 2,940 days. But who's counting?

EVERYTHING has changed.

#1 is that I'm off social media. It was a long time coming. I felt addicted. I didn't think I could actually step away. It hasn't even been a week and it feels like a loss - but also like freedom.

I thought restarting this blog could be a way to stay in touch. Or I could be sitting here on this beach all by myself. Either way - beautiful.

I sat with this idea all week - and the idea to revive this same blog - full of the past and history and things and some people who don't even exist anymore[for me]. Should I erase those past posts? Pretend they and the memories don't exist? I think the answer is obvious and I found it in the inspiration for "boffo panda" from Anne Lamott:“... I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda. If you had a giant panda in your back yard, anything could go wrong — someone could die, or stop loving you, or you could get sick — and if you could look outside and see this adorable, ridiculous, boffo panda, you'd start to laugh; you'd be so filled with thankfulness and amusement that everything would be O.K. again.”

Anything did go wrong and everything is okay. Again. 

I was a fairy, a wife, a dog mama, smaller, and more.

All these things happened to me ~ and for me. But mostly because of ME.

Onward!