Hello,

Why am I here?

Yet another avenue to funnel my creativity

Two degrees and countless school papers later, I find myself being called to write…for fun?

1. Why this, why now

With the strict confines of academia, my passion for writing quickly eroded into an internal dread and intense discipline every time an essay was assigned. As it goes in academia, instead of writing for myself, a once vast dream of mine as a child, I was now solely writing to garner the validation of someone else. It is amazing how quickly your love for something can be drained from you the second it is forced upon you. Julia Cameron, the author of The Artist’s Way, discusses how inspiration and creativity are not something you can force but rather an energetic force you tap into and channel. There is no rushing the process, only trusting the process. Now that my academic career is over, I am finding myself on a self-discovery path for my long lost creative self. And there lies the blunt instrument of a long lost skill. In searching for that creativity once more, I realized that academia only teaches you to take something apart, and never how to assemble it. So here I am, armed with years of literary dissection and analysis assigned by someone else, while my creative soul screams for attention. But now the irony feels comedic, because the little version of me who wrote books and stories for fun, she still exists. So here I am, honoring her and picking up the pen once more. But this time it’s for me and no one else. So far the freedom of that feels both rebellious and cathartic.

2. What kind of community am I looking to build here?

I want to attract people who are and feel the urge to be deeply connected to the world around them. I want to attract deep thinkers who don’t just see something on its face, who find meaning in the smallest of things. I want to attract philosophers, and poets, scholars and prophets. I want to attract the women who channel the mystic and divine. I want to attract sisterhood, and feminine community. Mostly, I want to attract people who want to learn how they can always show up with more love, whether it be for themselves or the world around them.

3. The specifics

I would love to challenge myself to post on here once a week. Meaning, I am creating a thought piece that has been swirling around my head, at least once a week. So far the experience has been enthralling, invigorating, and relieving to finally get it down on paper. I do have payments set up, I will never say no to financial support and the possibility or opportunity for abundance. After all, I am 24 as I write this, and an impressive income is not currently something I have to my name. But maybe if a community grows, I will offer more specialized and VIP articles. A part of me loves to talk and muse with others, so opening a forum where this could happen would also be of interest to me for paid subscribers. However, I do not want to be presumptive in thinking anyone would want my two cents on anything enough to pay for it. All that said, I am just excited to be here and to share.

Welcome to my page :) Hope you stay a while!

Photo by Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash

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