where i’m at

It’s kind of a weird thing, when you blog daily - or almost-daily - and then you take a little break from it. (Thanks for your well-wishes, by the way. I am feeling much better.) I was driving home the other day thinking how long it’s been since I’ve written a real blog post and wondering where the heck to begin. 

There are SO many wonderful things going on in my world right now. Some I am not quite ready to share and other things I just can’t wait another minute to tell you!

Like, for example, that I have a new job!

Although the basic set up in this photo — laptop, water bottle, and notebooks sprawled out at the coffee shop (Java Madness for those who are local) — is nothing new, the difference is that I have finally managed to somehow stumble my way into the magical world of paid writing! 

For some time now I’ve been dreaming up a little consulting business.

Something that would allow me to use the many skills I’ve acquired over the last 15+ years in a way that works for our family and feels right in my heart. A way for me to work with others who are starting and expanding sustainable, heart-centered small businesses that utilizes my writing, photography, marketing, networking and community-building skills.

And so I’ve been doodling little logos and tag lines in my notebooks. And imagining myself working with farmers and yoga teachers and healers and artists and craftspeople. And feeling SO excited by all the possibilities.

I hadn’t really told too many people about it. I’ve just been kind of privately savoring this next step that feels so right and trusting that it would come together in Divine timing. 

And that’s just what happened. A couple of weeks ago, while sipping coffee with a good friend and chatting about the weather (we do that a lot here in New England), he looked up at me and said something like…

This might sound kind of crazy, but I really need help with marketing and keeping in touch with my customers and creating a website and writing newsletters and…would you maybe be interested in working for me?

Crazy is not at all how it sounded. It sounded absolutely wonderful.

In addition to coffee shops and libraries, I’ve been setting up my mobile office at the laundry mat.

That’s right. We still have well issues. Holding tank issues actually. And the only real issue at this point is figuring out how to pay for a new tank, which is why it’s all the more wonderful that while I am sitting at the laundry mat waiting for our clothes I am also working.

And taking plenty of short breaks to study this book, The Knitted Farmyard, because I just can’t bear to hear my sweet girl tell one more person that her Mama is knitting a farm for her, when her Mama hasn’t actually done anything more than buy the toothpick-size needles it calls for and break out into a sweat every time she thinks about trying to knit something on them.

So there you go. Teeny-tiny-knitting. Public laundering. And joyfully working. 

That’s where I’m at.

How about you? What’s happening in your world?