Welcome to Wandering Home.
wandering, writing, and beginning
It was hard to admit to myself a few years ago that I’d have to put writing on the back burner to focus on community care, my health, growing my design business, and surviving a global pandemic. While they were worthy pursuits, I realize now just how much I’ve missed sharing my writing and thoughts.
The monumental changes of the last two years in my life have required SO much of me. As I'm certain they have you. In many ways, we're still piecing things back together that were missed, lost, or entirely shattered in the last couple of years. Rebuilding for me has required a lot of in-person community, time with my therapists (yes, I have two), focus on my health and wellbeing, and really digging deep to reintegrate the parts of me that are vastly different than they were before.
Before.
Before.
Remember before?
Last year in 2021, I traveled back to the Azores and I designed a huge publication for a non-profit. Both incredible experiences I worked really hard to have. And before, they would have been my year's big accomplishments. But the rebuilding work has been a more necessary, meaningful journey lately.
I'm here replanting and watching for life in this wilderness. And I’m ready to write about it.
So, out here in this desert, here’s a new thing I’m trying out: writing, publishing, and gratefully landing in your email inbox instead of relying solely on social media. This newsletter will be designed for quality over quantity, and serves to feed our creative spirits rather than the consumption monsters in us all.
I named it Wandering Home because while the journey of life and being human takes us many places, the beauty and connection we find together along the way of our wandering through the wilderness is what truly makes the journey home. I don’t know exactly what I’m going to be writing about or how often or what form it will take, but as an artist I know to trust the process. I know the stories and the themes will emerge with time and intention. I know my voice when I hear it.
But I’m a beginner here, so bear with me as I make this up as I go. Welcome to wandering home… together.
Until next time,
Shelby