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My new office wall. Just starting to add a little color amongst all the chaos, and there’s so much to process I can hardly begin (also I’m so sorry for the radio silence over here that will probably continue for awhile), but this little gem from the Get to WorkBook is true. Not only that small things each day add up to big things, but also that we have to take those big things one day at a time. That’s where we’re at right now. . . . #100daysofgatheredtruths #the100dayproject
I'm summoning up every ounce of courage I have today--while much of this new adventure we're on is exciting, it's also pretty scary, and today is my first day at my new job. Today a lot of new stories we've been working toward begin, but a lot of old stories I've been trying to move past are getting dredged up, too, with this move back to the place I grew up and lost my mom. Prayers much appreciated. #the100dayproject #100daysofgatheredtruths
Life always seems to be about more--more activities, more planning, more serving, more volunteering, more friends, more events, more posting, more doing, more, more, more. While all of these things can be very good, too much of any of them isn't helping us. Saying "no" can be good and healthy, too. Use it when you need to, and don't feel guilty about it. #100daysofgatheredtruths #the100dayproject
I know things don't often seem this simple, but trust me when I say they're not as complicated as we make them to be. #100daysofgatheredtruths #the100dayproject
74/100 --Norton Juster #100daysofgatheredtruths #the100dayproject
"I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something. So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life. Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever." -Neil Gaiman I know, I've been coming back to this concept a lot. But it's worth coming back to, and saying in different ways, and writing on post-its on your mirror (or wherever you can always see it), and repeating with different emphasis, and telling other people, because it is also, surprisingly easy to forget. #100daysofgatheredtruths #the100dayproject
72/100 "Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” -C.S. Lewis #the100dayproject #100daysofgatheredtruths
71/100 #100daysofgatheredtruths #the100dayproject
We're on the road right now, but over the last week I worked way ahead in my #100dayproject, and generated an awful lot of these little masking fluid confetti bits! It was a different kind of experience creating multiple #100daysofgatheredtruths in one sitting instead of taking each day as it comes--it was actually pretty helpful to remember all sorts of good things just before loading up our truck, saying goodbye to San Antonio, and setting out on this new adventure.
Since we've been married, Ethan and I have done our fair share of things other people thought were kinda crazy. We threw together a wedding and a move across the country in a little over a month (which involved having the ceremony in a coffee shop and driving away from our reception in a U-haul truck), started a blog about stories (including a month-long road trip along the entire west coast where these crazy introverts interviewed people we had never met before), moved every summer but one since we got married, and are currently driving north with all our belongings trailing behind us to start jobs we literally thought up two years ago (which will involve us working together, as a team, writing books for children)! Next up? Find and renovate a vintage airstream. (We met our savings goal to get that project started two weeks ago!) Some of our crazy ideas didn't work--the blog is shut down (though our new adventure is incredibly related to what it was about), our board game design is still in a binder somewhere, and I'm sure there are a dozen others I can't even remember now. But I'm proud even of every one that "failed," because at least we tried. We didn't stop at "Hey, wouldn't it be crazy and awesome if..." What "crazy" things have you done? What's the next thing on your list that you've been mentally flagging as impossible? It might not be. #100dayproject #100daysofgatheredtruths