Why I’m Writing

I am a lifelong learner. I love this about myself, and it can also be challenging. When you’re always learning, something is always changing.

Creating this website, this blog, is one of those changes. My writing and creations have usually been reserved for myself, and occasionally one other person. So why now?

Honestly, it feels like a calling. Something I must do. Once I let go of the limiting belief that I’m “not good with words,” something became clear. Writing is the form of creating I’m meant to share with the world, even though I’ve always been more drawn to working with my hands, painting, or drawing.

As it turns out, I’m very good with words when I move slowly and thoughtfully. That’s where my body and soul feel most at home. My mind, though, was shaped by my experiences and runs a mile a minute, with twenty tabs open. If you know, you know.

Writing helps my mind slow down enough to meet my body and soul where they already live. Recently, my husband told me that I “think very loud.” I found this perspective very thought provoking. Point proven.

I’m creating this in the days following my thirty-first birthday. I’ve lived a lot of life in what still feels like a relatively short time. I’ve learned many things along the way and continue to learn as I go.

This space isn’t about answers, but about slowing down enough to notice what’s worth asking.

-Katherine