A CURE FOR A CASE OF THE SEPTEMBERS
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” — Harold Whitman
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” — Harold Whitman was a smart man and I read these words while reading Frequency by Penney Peirce — one of those books I felt so compelled to purchase while roaming Indigo yet allowed to sit on our credenza for two years before picking up.
Every September I succumb to the lie that I need to reinvent myself. And typical me, last month I rebranded and launched a second website (you already know that because you’re here), started posting on a 2nd Instagram all the while spending good chunks of my days just crying because all three of our children were now in school and life as I knew it was over.
But then October hit and I started designing projects for fun. I invented two brands - girlcode and cannabis dreams and it was like a spark had been lit (pun intended). Because as it turns out, creativity is a muscle that needs to be flexed differently. I’ve spent the last few years designing for clients, for brand campaigns, for everyone else and I never thought to ask myself what I would design if I could do it for fun. Cannabis Dreams is the one I’m sharing today and it was inspired by a trip to Friday’s Cannabis in PEC this summer (our first foray into the world of cannabis started with my husband and I asking one of the women working there what she would recommend to take the edge off of daily life).
I shared both website concepts with a few friends and they all wanted to know what I was planning on doing with the sites and it was fun telling them that I didn’t know - that right now they’re just for me.
