For as long as I can remember, I've had the urge to write. Most of the time I have hidden it, or shoved it away for later, like a sock from your favorite pair that you can't find the match to. It always resurfaces looking for me.
When I was in highschool I wrote poetry. It was mostly dark, sad about love or my relationship with my father, which was a tumultuous one. No one really understood my writing or felt connected to it in a way that made me feel very good, so I eventually stopped writing it. Now I look back on that and realize I should have kept going. My writing wasn't theirs to understand, necessarily. Their thoughts should not have dictated how I lived my life.
That has been a very hard lesson for me to learn and I am only beginning to really practice living in that space. My hope for this blog is that I can finally let my words flow, to heal, to help others and to truly exist where I am comfortable. It is a work in progress.
So I will leave you with this for now...
We are all on a journey. Each breath we take is an opportunity for growth and for change.
Like beams of light we all shine from different angles and for diffrent reasons.
May you find what brings you peace, may you find your light and when you do, let it shine!
XOXO
Vanessa
Rose, Aster & Hawthorn