I’m not making any life decisions while my body is healing like this.
So I keep telling myself.
In reality, I’m making all the life decisions. When I started writing regularly on this platform, I thought that I’d become a content and course creator like some of the popular business models I see these days.
But simultaneously I also started writing middle-grade fiction, which is nothing like running a health & wellness platform. Also concurrently I started watching a LOT of travel youtube channels and that made me remember a moment almost 20 years ago.
The cereal Kashi began running an ad circa 2004 that featured a woman who traveled to faraway places to discover new grains and berries and wondrous things.* It was one of those moments in my life (maybe you’ve had them?) where pretty much everyone I knew was like, ‘I saw the thing that you should become on the Kashi commercial.’
I thought I would become a lot of things that I’m not. And I never thought I’d become some of the things that I am.
But one thing I keep coming to is that commercial. I honestly don’t even know if I can find it on the internet.
I realize I can become that in my own way, in modern times–doing my best to avoid cultural appropriation, colonialist views of land, and gentrifying/exploiting everything in my wake.
I’m going to start small with some videos/livestreams of me going on plant walks and talking about cool botanicals that may be supportive of human health.
And we’ll see where I go from there.
(I’ll get back to the middle-grade fiction in a future post).
*This was 20 years ago–the post-colonial/cultural appropriation conversation is thankfully robust and it’s totes not appropriate for me to be this person now but I’m writing about this to illustrate who I am in the way I know best. Even if it’s a little clunky like now. Please feel free to comment below if you’re struggling with this–I invite a respectful discourse on this topic.
