If you're a real one, and just judging by the fact that you're here I'm going to assume that you are, you'll remember that I had a blog years and years and years ago. I've always loved writing and it never mattered to me if anyone saw it. It was, and is, simply cathartic. I sit at my beautiful wooden writing desk, I light a candle, I usually have some variation of classical or folk music playing, I'm looking out the window at the ocean, and my toes are being attacked by my hairless grey cat named Porgy. All is well.
It's always the same here at my desk, and it's that safe familiarity that inspires me to write. Usually it's in my leather-bound journal, or in my notes app. Recently I've started taking an online Health and Wellness course with Harvard University, so the poor course facilitators over there asking me for a mere one hundred word response to prompts have been getting at least 500. They'll ask me for a breif summary on Heart Disease and I end up going on a tangent about the small, fleeting beauties in life and why they're so magical. Probably not the best place to take out all of my pent-up writing energy, but I sure hope the professor who graded my assignment heard a mourning dove coo the next morning and thought of me.
In all seriousness, I think I was drawn to start back up my blog for the sheer purpose of feeling authentic again. As I'm sure most of you know, social media can be so damn draining. In my case, it's my job, and it's really hard to find that balance. I love curating content and collaborating with brands, it's the best job in the world! Sometimes, however, I just feel incomplete. Like I'm sharing almost all aspects of my personality; like I'm almost covering all of my bases.
Writing, (like most things if I'm being honest) makes me giddy. My hope is that my little blog about life, health, love, and romantazing all of the above, can make you giddy too. Welcome to my happy place! I hope it can soon become yours too.
xoxo, Lauren Summer
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