Here I am, back in my happy place (sunshine and a book) and starting a new series: the Dreaming True Series, formally known in my mind as the Dreaming Big Series. What does all of this mean? Well, I'll tell you.
First, if you don't know already, I'm in the middle of a midlife...crisis, awakening, shift? With the big move, my age (rumbling toward 50...eek!), having to build a new community, and eventually having to start a new job, I just need a calibration of sorts. I don't want to throw anything I have away, as I LOVE most of my life, but I need more.
This "needing more" is a calibration of sorts, and it is what is bringing about this new series. I have a ton of trips this spring, so in an effort to savor and memorialize all these trips, I'm turning back to this blog to what I know best: writing it all down.
That said, here is what I need in this phase of my life: I need to be in nature in all of its forms; I need to find a community that prioritizes giving back; I need to give back more; I need to live more purposefully and intentionally; I need to be around people who are doing the same and who are, as Brené Brown says, in the arena and fighting for an authentic, purposeful life; I need more freedom to be me; I need to be at a job where social equality is a part of the fabric not something we just "do"; I need to surround myself with people who feed my soul and are on the same journey as myself--otherwise, I'm not interested; I need to pursue creative things and avoid things that sap my spirit; I need freedom--out in the world and within me.
So, what I've written about is what dreaming true means to me and what I hope to cover these next few months. Thanks, as always, for reading along and for sending me your positive energy in every way it comes forward.
