Make some noise around the things that you love! The world needs your remarkable gifts that only you can share. This is your time—make it count. Don’t back down; stand strong in your convictions. The grey clouds come and go, but that dream will always linger. Answer your innermost calling.

Who cares if it does not make sense to anyone else? It is your vision, your truth that you seek to unveil with joy. I am dusting the shine from these lifelines. I was caught in a haze trying to meet someone else’s gaze. The expectations of a life that never worked need to be pushed out in order to flow.

I have never sought the ordinary; I have longed for the extraordinary. So I will live this gift that is today in a way that makes my heart skip back to the beat that my soul longs to sing. I have not been excited in years until I saw beautiful lace sewn into the Elsa Fitzgerald skirt. I crack open the old doors to a beautiful library where my doctoral journey begins and feel nourished that I have returned to my calling wholeheartedly.

I am not sure where you are on your journey, but I do hope you find your way back to your truest, most glorious self. It takes courage, conviction, and a great deal of seeming foolishness. There is another life on the other side of your doubts—will you fight to see what it holds?