Day 1: Publish

I’m ready for change.

For well over a year, I’ve been ready for change.

So today, as I hit publish on the first post, I’m making a change. A small one. This is the first in a series of thirty tiny changes, one for each day of the month to come. My hope is that dedicating a little time each day to a new experience will (gently) see me through some bigger changes and that all of this will teach me a few lessons about novelty as a tool to ground myself and to broaden my horizons.

For now, I won’t get too far into the what and the why of this blog. That’s a story for another day. In the spirit of small changes, I will say this:

There have been various drafts of first posts, countless sketches of illustrations, and notes about how and what to photograph. A link to this blog has lived in my Instagram bio since 2019 at about this time of year – a constant reminder of that thing I want to be doing but am not. So, instead of managing this tinge of guilt, I’m letting go of the idea of what it should or could look like and am embracing the idea at the heart of the blog and its name: home, like meditation, is a practice.

Today’s little change is hitting publish. A little exhale after holding my breath for far too long. I’m saying hello to you, reader. Hello, new friend. I hope you stick around.

P.S. I have an idea of what a few of these little changes will be, but I don’t have a list of thirty. I’m open to suggestions, so if you’ve got an idea, please send me a note here.