You don’t have to live “somewhere over the rainbow” for your dreams to come true…
Capture the essence of your dreams for the future to pour into right now.
Hello dear friend,
Did you see my recent letter “Leaning In”? It’s a letter about making your dreams happen, in miniature. The whole practise has been a game changer for me, and so I wanted to share it with you.
Have you ever felt like the things you want are destined to be forever out of reach? Like your dreams are there, drifting in front of you, but your arms aren’t long enough. If you’re lucky, maybe you’ll catch one and it takes shape enough to hold. Maybe you’ll be lucky enough to capture all of your dreams. Maybe the opposite is true and that would be the worst thing to happen to any of us, because, then what? What is left when your soul is full of all the things you’ve chased? I don’t know the answer to that one.
I do know what it’s like to chase dreams that drift through your fingertips, as if they were wisps of fog, uncatchable. But what if they weren’t? What if we could capture just a little bit? Feel the joy and sparkle of that little bit of magic every day.
What if?
What if all you have to do is decide that you want it, that it’s there for the taking. That it was always meant to be yours, even if only in some small way.
What if you stop thinking of your dream life as an untouchable thing and instead, reach out and capture the essence of those dreams to pour into right now?
I don’t have “jars” for every dream scenario, but to serve as examples, here are some ways that I have reached into my own misty, fuzzy edged future and pulled back some magic:
Brought elements of my “one day” kitchen to my current setup.
A beautiful but homely swoon-worthy kitchen was cascaded down not by an entire re-model but picking an achievable aspect and implementing it in a way that fit the space.
After seeing Anja Dunk’s kitchen setup in her first cookbook and then Gill Meller’s (and then unwittingly chatting to a friend in the kitchen that inspired Gill Meller’s), I became obsessed with the idea of open shelving. It’s not for everyone, I get it. We tried with deeper units and it didn’t work, and yet shelving, is a whole different story. We kept the main kitchen as it was and put to use a wall that had been waiting for a purpose by putting up wall to wall shelving. It is easily one of my most favourite things about our home and makes cooking a total joy. No more wrestling with getting things in and out of cupboards / drawers. Organisation and ease make such a huge difference to every day.
Anja and Gill’s kitchens are shown in this piece by The Guardian if you’re curious about the inspiration.