You might have guessed from my recent blog posts, but I went through a breakup a while ago. It was a bummer. I spent about a month just hibernating (and not in a warm fuzzy bear way). It was hard to work on my blog or shop because I didn’t want to feel like I was faking it. I just straight up wasn’t in the mood to do anything. Anyway. That happened. And I feel like it’s just one example of how life can really get in the way of our hopes and goals and expectations.

I have decided to stop looking at the seasons as little goal-setting windows. Because seasons are unpredictable. It’s not always winter, spring, summer, and fall. It’s happy, sad, inspiring, gloomy…the unavoidable ebb and flow. I am going to try to embrace the seasons as they come. This one was tough, but life is still so beautiful. And “the ache” always goes away in time.

Normally I wouldn’t post something this personal, but sometimes you’ve gotta address the elephant in the room. Without oversharing too much, I want to start including more personal things here. Like what I am learning and how things are really going. It can’t always be photos of succulents and tassel garlands, am I right?

Today, I felt really inspired for the first time in a long time. I got out of the house and walked down the street. There is a particular street in my neighborhood that is full of life to me. Even when it’s empty, I smell nature, delicious ethnic food, smoke, incense…just life. So I went on this walk, and I ended up talking to a lot of strangers. I wandered over to Whole Foods, where I bought some grapefruit sage kombucha (mmm) and filled a few pages of my notebook with blog ideas. Using colorful pens.

Sometimes you have to make yourself feel inspired in order to overcome a gloomy mood. And by “you,” I mean me. So, I’ll be doing that with this blog. Inspiring me. And maybe you. :)