We have a winner!

That's right!  Nichi is the winner of a fabulous storytelling prize!  Thank you to all four of our contest entrants.  Just think; that could have been your name I just announced.  

Tomorrow will mark the last day in this first year since my life took a serious left turn.  Thank you for all your support and kindness as I've struggled to find my way into some new expression of my life's work.  I have learned so very much about myself this year.  It has been a true test, a true gift, and also a year full of deep questioning. 

I am, for instance, questioning the role of social media in my life.  I am especially curious about how short-form posting, such as is common on FaceBook and Twitter, affects the way I seek to communicate with others.  I read an article today in issue 3 of Taproot (thank you, Lisa, for bringing them in to the shop!) that struck a chord with me; it was a breakup note to FaceBook.  In the article, Leslie Gilman refers to the need to make a thing more real by sharing it, posting it, photographing and documenting, yes, but also putting it out to the world, Look! I did a thing!
I've been questioning that impulse in myself...  No answers yet, just questions.