A Quite Shift

A quick and small note on a new wind blowing through the blog.

There’s something special about keeping a blog for years. In many ways it’s a time capsule, one where when I am wandering through I remember that one lipstick I adored, or that series I stayed up watching. Or that book that had shook me to my core. All the little joys, the sparks of hope and the tender moments. They are here, for me to relive for you to find.

I started blogging because I felt I could not share all that I am with the people around me. Although way more normalised for girls in their twenties at thirteen wanting to find out the newest collection from Essence was something to laugh at. Which I understand now, as an adult, is pretty silly. But at the time it was overwhelming to be ‘different’ to be not quite like the others. Eventually everyone else caught on so to speak and I am not a very ‘basic’ person, nothing wrong with that as I talked about before. But with that shift, so did I change. I needed a space back then, somewhere peaceful. A place that was mine, where I could share all of that. Even if no one else saw it, even if it was only for me. That place, within the turmoil of the world stayed. My silent companion for all these years.

Even when I didn’t update often, even when life felt like too much or too little. It’s held all the versions of me I didn’t know I was becoming. Lately, I’ve felt a shift. Not a dramatic one — more like the slow change of light in a room you know well. I found myself wanting this blog to feel different. Softer, slower more typically me. I think that over time when others started liking what I liked, I felt that I had to like what they liked. In many ways I do, but then I also don’t. Over time this place didn’t feel like me anymore. Not the person I am, and certainty not the one I want to be.

So I’ve been reworking things. I renamed the categories to reflect the way I move through my days now. “The Reading Garden” for books — a place for stories, “after the credits” because that is where I shine, “The vanity table” where it all began. I have also renamed the other categories such as “In Full Bloom” for lifestyle — for routines but also all the small little reflective posts I love to share. For letters from the hearts. “Postcards & Places” for travel, when it happens and “letters from Afar” from that time I spend abroad. And here we are, “Scattered Petals” for shorter reflections that feel like little pauses.

It feels lighter now, more like something you can wander through, stopping wherever something catches your eye. It’s a small way for me to go back to how I began, at my little desk in my childhood bedroom and saying this. This space is mine. The posts will not change dramatically but it feels different and that alone is okay.

I’m still here, still writing, still sharing, just more gently. More intentionally. So if you’re here — thank you. I hope what I share brings you some calm, or inspiration, or just a small moment of resonance. That’s all I really hope for. For a small smile, a soft touch. A bit of that magic I almost thought was lost.

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