hi again.
Written September 2021:
Long time no see. Or talk. Or anything really. Unless we’re friends on Instagram too and in that case we’re not as bad as strangers. (Although I admit I was MIA for months at a time there too). For all you OG readers, wow. Hi again. I could tear up that you’re back. I could also tear up just from this feeling of writing again. But mostly it’s YOU I’ve missed. Truly. And I don’t know if we need a big deep dive into the last few years, but I love reading a good “Where are they now?” So maybe that’s more the style I’ll go for in this first post back. I don’t know. I’m very rusty you guys.
Wait. Had to pause. Because I just looked back and it’s almost TO.THE.DAY of my last post on coralandcharm.com when all of this is going live. I didn’t plan that one bit, but somehow that feels perfect. Very serendipitous. And I suppose now I know my heart needed exactly two years to rest, heal (hi to those bouts of anxiety), dig into real life and real people and give myself the grace to have not one ounce of creative motivation whatsoever.
And I could have stayed away from everything forever and been fine. Life was sweet and good. But I always had this pull in the back of my mind and heart to come back to it. Refreshed. With more joy and more creativity and more vision and more growth (thank you Lord for all of those things). My Friday Morning crew back in NC knows this - those sweet dreamers have been praying and encouraging me back into this space this whole time. They are the real ones wow! Love you, miss you.
Speaking of… HI WE MOVED TO SAN DIEGO !!!! AND WE GOT A PUPPY !!!! Wow. There’s too much, maybe we do need a deep dive after all?