finale
The end is really the beginning…
Today is December 31st, the last day of 2023, the last day of my 300 posts project for the year!
This is actually my 303rd post. Three hundred and three!!!!
The crazy, accidental thing that makes this number unintentionally perfect is that the first three posts on everyday magic (everyday magic, guiding lights, and attention is love) were published in October of last year, on a different site I had set up and was trying out before I lost my nerve and procrastinated. So it’s pretty cool I accidentally went past the 300 count by exactly 3, meaning I did write 300 new posts this year!
I posted those three lonely posts last October, left them sitting, had lots of tech issues with that other freebie site, procrastinated, and didn’t find the courage to write and share more.
Until January 2023. I had some conversations and wisdom shared with me that made me realize I could not be afraid of failure or success, and I must do the work. I must write because I long to, and I must share it with the world. I decided to start my 25 posts per month commitment for the entirety of 2023. I am happy to say, there was not a single month of the year that I didn’t meet this number (though it was a close call, just under the wire, some months!).
The goal has been to write dailyish — a very important cornerstone of committed creative practices. I love the grace and wiggle room this allows for, and I love the consistent return.
Writing everything I’ve written this year has changed me. The clarity, vision, work, enjoyment, dedication, and words have shaped me so much more than I expected. everyday magic molded my becoming this year. The excavation and processing carried me through big challenges and evolutions. I learned much deeper levels of resilience, bounce back after failure, grappling with consistency, doing the hard work, moving forward no matter what (no matter how small), tapping into my power, and staying true to my values and becoming this year. I have faced fears and asked questions. I have listened and met myself, over and over again.
I am proud of my work here. Some of it hasn’t met the quality I hoped it would, and some of it has far surpassed. So goes a large catalogue of work. The outcomes don’t matter, it just matters that we keep showing up and doing the part we can control: the action. The practicing.
I love writing. I’m delighted to have felt a sense of improvement over the year and to have seen my words develop over time. I love the story this year on the blog weaves together.
I have big hopes and dreams for the future of my writing. This is the end of the month, the end of the year, the end of my first 300… but it is only the beginning of what I hope will be a very abundant and long-lived writing life.
For all who are here, to every friend and new friend who has followed my writing for the year, to everyone reading and responding… from the bottom of my heart, thank you.
To 2024. To more words, our best stories, and making our art. Make your life a song. Do your soul’s work. Put your ass where your heart wants to be. Live it up.
I love you.
