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Buried Hopes

Welcome to the new blog!

I realized last month that I do remarkably better when I am attempting to blog regularly. I'm able to take all the pain and thoughts and questions I keep bottled up and create something from them, something that makes more sense than it does when it's left to rot inside of me. After discussing this with Tom, he suggested renaming my blog and moving it over to Wordpress. I was a little tired of the old site, so I figured this would be a good project for me.

It was difficult to think of a name, but I knew that if anyone could help me, it was Anne Shirley. So I scoured my worn copy of Anne of Green Gables for quotes (actually, I looked on Goodreads, but scouring my worn copy sounds better), and came up with this title, Buried Hopes. It comes from one of Anne's many dramatic speeches in which her life feels full of disappointments. "My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes," she declares. If you have read the books or seen the movies (if you have only seen the movies, please read the books), you know that Anne manages to have a lot of those hopes resurrected. I like to think that my story is similar to hers in that way. I like to think that all of our stories are, actually.

When it came to my blog design, I consulted my uber creative friend, Eva Taylor, of Eva Marie Topography. She helped me find and set up a Wordpress theme and hand-drew the beautiful custom header. I love her work.

I hope to be blogging more in the upcoming months. It is not the easiest thing for me to do, but it is good for me, a good discipline for my heart. I would love to have you join me in the process, so feel free to subscribe by email or add me to your blog reader!

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