Lighten Up!

Hello and happy weekend, friend!

The past few weeks have been intense and crazy, full of fun and family, and also selling homes, packing, sorting, sifting, organizing and LOTS of letting go, both emotionally and materially. A huge transition for my wee little family of man and dogs…plus all the paperwork and inspections and waiting and anticipating, and getting super excited, then emotional, then delighted, and then impatient. You know, all the feels!

And in so doing, I’ve been sorting through lots of history. Now, last time I moved I shared with you about downsizing (yet again!) I threw out/recycled much of my history, like journals and old photo albums, even old Gypsy Caravan stuff. It was a beautiful thing. Felt so good to lighten up, to let go, to not be weighed down, to not have lots of extraneous boxes, or furniture, or even artwork and books. I’ve always been a very visual person, artist, photographer, dancer (let’s talk a room full of costumes and jewelry!) I found a lot of the past did not have the same meaning for me it once had. Nothing wrong or bad, just I was evolving and growing and changing like I always have done. I am in constant search of inspiration and growth, hungry for more. But that more is a different kind of more for me than it once was.

I notice now how a blank wall can satisfy me, as I reflect in, and see outside differently, whereas before my…