today, there’s been a name change here on my blog… it feels (at the moment) less like chocolate covered musings and more like postcards from the journey i am making – both in the world and in the discovery of myself. i don’t write much, about enough to fit on the back of a postcard, so i felt that this title is appropriate for right now.
along with this name change, there’s been a clearing out… old corners, old blog posts, swept out, pared down to under 50 entries, cleared to make room for whatever might come… who wants to read my blog posts from 2005 anyway (not even me)!?
i was born with a restless spirit – looking for something that was lost long ago…
trying desperately to find a place in this world to call home….
enjoying the journey as a way to discover pieces of myself, a way to expand, to experience life…
trying to always see my journey from the perspective of learning and love.
i wander with companions: my husband joins me on this part of my journey, as do a dslr, a polaroid, a kodak brownie and other friends, both on and offline
friendships are forged over tea/coffee/wine and trips to the quiet countryside.
please do join me for a part of my journey…. and whatever you are seeking – adventures without leaving home, new places to discover, quiet, inspiration, joy, comfort, a slice of crazy pie, or love; may you find a piece of it here.
arohanui
-leonie
i’ve got some big stories {the not good enough lies} that cover me like many layers of clothing built up over many years.
some of them go like this:
you can’t
so don’t even bother
who do you think you are
you’re not good enough to do that
it has stopped me in my tracks many many (many) times over. i read/hear/see parts of my story lived and written in others stories also. and i often wonder what the point of even trying to express myself is, when others are more eloquent, more creative, more daring…
and still a tiny budding part of me keeps pushing through the drought-stricken soil of these lies, up to the light of creative freedom, towards the expression of my{TRUE}self
- i have an etsy shop stewing in my creative pot – seasoned with love and encouragement from friends who believe in me (more on this when i’m ready to launch)
- i have a sister who showed me how much fun photography can be… how to look at the world through inquisitive eyes
- i have a community of people around me that continually question, learn, grow, encourage & support each other
- i have a growing faith in myself, in my unique way of seeing the world, in the gifts that i can bring to this life, to this world, to the people around me
- i am ready to start shedding these layers of not-good-enoughs. they’re getting heavy.
what kind of not good enough lies are you ready to be free from?
i thank you god for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes
(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun’s birthday; this is the birth
day of life and love and wings: and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)
how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any–lifted from the no
of all nothing–human merely being
doubt unimaginable you?
(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)
-e.e.cummings
In the middle of the road of my life I awoke in the dark wood where the true way was wholly lost.
–dante
heard on Clear Mind, Wild Heart, read by the author David Whyte
