Dreams in the Lost and Found Box

Lately, I’ve been internally busy and rather neglectful in writing, but that doesn’t mean life and its vibrancy around me changed. While I try to make sense of things around going through perimenopause and find my new rhythms, there has been much to be grateful for. I apparently now have a new, updated look with no hair. There is a saying I will make up today… “If you need to cut off all your hair, your head shape will suit a bald look.” Now that I have accepted this state of affairs, I feel better and enough. But more about this and the adventures of hormones in another post.

Someone challenged me last December in a coaching session to make this year count. It’s about time for me to visualise and see through some of my dreams and ambitions. When we come into this world, we often get swept up in the dreams and visions of others, so much so that remaining true to our unique sense of purpose gets lost along the way. So here I am deliberately going through the lost and found box and regathering myself so to speak.

Reconnecting with that tiny glint of the flame inside us takes a while, and keeping it alive is even harder, but boy is it worth it! I have been taking some baby steps in this direction. If you ever find a word that describes excitement and terrified all in one feeling let me know.  

So here is to a year of sifting through the past and figuring out how to reconnect with misplaced dreams and making them a reality. And to help me in this mission here is to letting go of whatever is not in service to my sense of well-being and being ok with failure. So far so good...

Let’s see what happens on the other side…

In the meantime, I ticked something off a wish-list recently and wanted to share highlights of a visit to Rio de Janeiro… it’s hard to describe how much I appreciated this moment and the people I met. It made a deep impression on me how, as black people living around a supremacist world, we survive and thrive and refuse to be erased or separated from our heritage of beauty and creativity.