"The Minus That"

Ah, the inevitable first post. Admittedly, I am no fan of firsts, or lasts. I am a woman after the marrow of all things, big and small. Beginnings and endings are either awkward or sad, and I usually deal with either by charging forward with eyes fixed ahead. This excludes the birth of my son, Emerson, whose entry into the beginning of his life was pure magic. So, as previously mentioned, I trek on through this first update of my first real blog.

"The Minus That" in This Red Hat, Minus That:

The idea sprung from the philosophy of "less is more." Each week, I will subtract something - an item, a habit, a personality trait, an indulgence - from my life, with the grand hopes that at the end of one year, I will have created a more tranquil, balanced, and value-centered life for myself.

Not that I'm living in chaos at the moment. Don't get me wrong, I'm very much in love with my life and the world it is being played out in. There are, however, a ton of things constantly running through this hat rack of mine, and I'm finding that, more often than not, most of them don't matter as much as I seem to think they do. A guilty trend of being human, I suppose. I found myself on quite a few occasions wondering how I could not only simplify my world, but expand my horizons, and most importantly, learn as much as I could while doing so.

This journey of mine is open to the public. All will be recorded here - a big feat as I very much enjoy keeping the negative aspects of myself behind closed doors, for fears and notions that will be delved into on a later date, I'm sure.

Hats (of any color, not just red) off to new ideas and tales to tell, learning and growing, exploring and loving, being open and just being.

With love and high hopes,

The Girl in This Red Hat