Where do I go from here? 2024 has arrived and I still feel like I am in the trenches of 2023, slowly climbing out as the sun hangs out a bit longer in my window day by day. My friend has called to share that she saw some flowers on her walk today and it made me smile. My unfinished Talvitelat quilt is knocking on my door, asking me when I will pick her up again. My old books, my dear friends I started in January of 2023 are once again present in my hands, and in a few weeks, I will be a published author. Wow, I can not believe I did it.
As someone who values working hard as if my life has depended on it, I wonder what it would feel like to settle into relaxing. Into slowness. Summer is around the corner and the bitterness of not having wintertime to just rest and replenish is lifting like a haze covering my eyes.
Summer, the happiest, most abundant time of year, where I can bask in longer days, flowing dresses and walks with my basket as my companion swinging to the market to sit and enjoy stone fruit dripping on my fingers on a handmade quilt, later venturing for a sunset hang by the sea.
There is something so addictive about solitude and I love and crave for another solo trip to the coast to write. Truthfully, I planned to write another book last year, this year, next year? Who knows how far I will get, but I have a theme in my mind that is fully in motion and will come forth into the world. My grief and suffering of 2022 and 2023 will not be in vain.
I am wondering where I go from here? This is the time of year I love to keep my eyes between two books. Currently I am expanding my mind on Early Christianity, Byzantine architecture, long lost anthropologists, and expeditions gone awry.
As someone who was born on the cusp of summer, I am brimming for long days, warm nights, cherry picking, and dancing near the sea. With a camera in hand, I plan to capture those moments that will be forever lost in my mind. What are you looking forward to as the days turn to longer stretches of sun?
Feeling immense gratitude for the quietude winter brings and the remembrance to rest, replenish, and bounce back for a healthy and vibrant spring and summer.
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Written under a full moon in Leo and a sun in Aquarius feeling frisky.
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