"When we feel strong and ready, rarely do those life altering changes come. The real changes always happen just past our borders, when we step from our native soil and our feet find new and unknown, potentially unsteady ground. We don’t know if we’ll sink, if we’ll fall, if we’ll ever be able to move again. But then we do, and we just pray our movements have some grace to them, because we’ve little idea where we are and little idea how to get where we’re going. Courage isn’t that remarkable sensation of feeling strong – it’s not the memorized, sure steps down streets we own and know by heart – courage is the messy movements past our native soil."

- Katrina Hope

*Just some words from Uncommon to get your day started off right.

“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”

– Thomas Merton

This is the love I seek.  This is the love I want to give.           Borrowed from Uncommon

If you haven't already... go read these things from today on Uncommon Collective and Hope is an Anchor.

And do not fret in this summer of becoming... Embrace it's inconceivable, wild spirit and let it shape you.

When September ends, we are all likely to be very different people.  And that is a hopeful thought.

Fireworks - Green

Remember me mentioning Uncommon Collective as on of my Wednseday Creatives? 

Yes, well... I'm pleased to announce that I've written a guest contribution for the site!

I'd love it if you hopped over and read "One Foot in Fairyland."  And do let me know what you think!  This was a bold step for me, but I'm so glad to offer something to this burgeoning community. 

If you haven't already, do explore their site or their facebook page.  A personal favorite is Katrina's "The Need to Be Inspired" - it touches on things that are kind of my favorite :)

And "green," you may be wondering.  Green for fairyland and creativity and new beginnings.