When I began this blog about eighteen months ago, I had no grand agenda beyond documenting and reinforcing my desire to live a more simple life that prioritized my values and passions over consumption and bottomless desire (I still struggle mightily with each of the latter.) I came upon the idea of "steering the ship" of my life to a more simple place as opposed to feeling I needed to swerve disruptively in a new direction like an adrenaline-fueled speedboat racer. The image of a large ship taking a slow, wide berth to change course stuck in my mind and kept my internal critic at bay - the nagging voice that tells me I should always being doing more, and perhaps I'm a failure for not accomplishing every goal immediately. Today I realized that after eighteen months, the ship truly has made its way in a new direction, even if the navigating has been a bit slow and is still very much in process.
