Embracing the path

The limitations tht we’ve accepted as outs are also not fixed.

I spent my whole life thinking about sacrifice. About what it means that someone gave everything so that you could be standing here to have to opportunity that you have today.

It was this energy that flowed through me to the people I loved to keep them safe and alive and fed.

We just got to put all the money together. Everything goes into the pot. Everyone’s contributing. No one’s really thinking about it. You just kind of do it.

I’ve spent the majority of my life learning that those things were not detours. Those were the actual journey.

We don’t have to wait for permission. We can build what we need and we can bring it to the people around us with us.

When we were little someone hands us a map. And for some people, that map comes with extra weight.

That map can show you where they went. What it cannot show you is where you will go.

The camino is not a straight line. It never was. The path is not fixed. You are not fixed. The conditions will change because they always do. But you have agency in the direction at any moment.

If something gets hard, I just double down and work harder. And the harder you work, the more you feel like you’re getting ahead.

I had this fire that I had inside of me that I felt like I had kept having to dim over and over and over again to fit in places.

I built a community around me and I did that by helping other creatives to build the business side of their businesses.

The more the creative community built around me, the more it needed a place to gather.

The clay is going to do what the clay is going to do. And the Camino is similar.

Sometimes in life, we grip tight. We try to force the path to be whatever we want it to be and teh path just keeps doing whatever it’s gonna do.

Nothing is fixed. Not your feelings right now, not the obstacles, not the conditions. All of that is changeable.