Make Space for Yourself
Take a deep breath 🍂
Originally published October 23, 2023
Breathe in the new colors around you. Had you yet realized you’ve moved from the rapid fire of summer into the composed sacred of fall?
I’ve been thinking about what I wanted to write you this month, and truthfully I’ve been daunted by the significance of a new season.
I wondered at how to capture the highs of recent career moments next to the expanse of personal life without selling any of it short.
My mind scrambled in search for a succinct takeaway from recent weeks. And who can blame me for getting a little lost in the sweet details of adding Alice + Olivia, Bucherer, Dolce & Gabbana, Waldorf Astoria, and so many more to my client list!
Then, I remembered that this space is about Romance, not recapping.
To elaborate - romance is “desire,” recapping is “obligation.”
AH! Here gleamed my golden thread for this month, a worthy yet simple theme was illuminated from beneath the din of recent activity...
I want to start savoring again. I want to stop caving to “should.”
Sweet October moments
Right now, savoring for me looks like streamlining. Taking stock and focusing on the pieces of life that encouraged recent growth. Clearing out clutter lets the inspiring stand out.
I am planning to use this time and space to unfold into moments of “just for me” fuel that I’d temporarily tucked away for the sake of productivity and executing.
I have a feeling you might be craving life’s margins as well.
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1900
Let your ligaments expand and your joints creak. Melt into the spaces that are only visible when you strip the busyness and bare the buried.
Honesty. Pure & Still.
The winter white flash of a sun winking down into the horizon. Life looks different as October closes.
What do you want this November? Expect the mavelous when you stop settling for the shoulds.
xo, Bex
Curio Box
REEVALUATION OF PROCESS (from Bex’s iPhone notes)
Never judge a mark -
for it will later be used.
You’ll find grace in the patience
and the true loves in the mess.
Importance will rise from her margined rest in time.
The captivating will always come,
not from us but come from God.
So while you wait,
take time to notice
the momentum of the organic,
those persisting marks that come to life.
The full picture comes from the everpresent unexpected.
“Ah listen, for Silence is not lonely:
Imitate the magnificent trees
That speak no word of their rapture, but only
Breathe largely the luminous breeze.”