Welcome to another beginning.
If you know me, you'll know fresh starts are nothing new. If you're new here, you'll learn. <3
Hello, darlings—and happy new moon!
(I didn’t plan this timing consciously, but when I noticed it, you bet I leaned in.)
This is Follow the Paint, a newsletter about whatever's flowing through my mind.
My intention here is to write like no one’s watching, and also to let anyone watch.
This is a space for me to organize scrawls from my notebooks and share insights that feel too juicy or nutritious to hoard. To embrace who I’ve been, encounter who I am, and allow who I’m becoming. To unlearn self-censorship and exercise the muscle of my voice from the deepest core of my Self. To continue to explore my uncomfortable edges and nudge myself into expansion. To play around and record my creative process. And more than likely share some art and short fiction.
I’ve spent a lot of my life wrapping my words and shifting thoughts in caveats, afraid that I will alienate, offend, or be judged by people I care about or the broader public. I used to allow these concerns to choke my self expression and even my creative fiction.
But now I know the only estrangement that matters is between ourselves and our own Source/spirit/soul. And when that’s connected, everything lightens up.
So listen in on this covenant I’m making with myself, that you are invited to sign up for too: I’m setting out to say what I’m sincerely drawn to say, not what I think others might want to hear. To write whatever feels resonant with me.
I hope you find something here that sparks you too.
From my heart,
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