this path

you’ve got to find a way to be inspired by your life.

My friend (and contributor) Sienna told me to treat Scary Boots as a duty. Not a duty to myself, but to the world. It’s my duty to follow the vision I have and share Scary Boots with the world. I like that.

“You didn’t represent failure. You represented confusion. Most people would pick a side. Either be a writer and hang out with the writers, if you can, or, if you can’t, then leave the place where the writers are and make common cause with the workers and only the workers. Laugh about the guests and not care about anything else while you’re on the j... See more

to not seek being universal, and to know that if you’ve stayed true to your voice, the same way we meet our own friends, we will find our people and cultivate that world.

Accepting the job offer involved a process of looking back at the last few years of my work and seeing, for the first time, a path that I hadn't realized I was on. Anything can seem like a path when you look back and make it one, but it was a surprising lesson to me that sometimes you're already, maybe unknowingly, cultivating the experiences that ... See more

nothing is permanent, and if you try to stick to one path it lessens the likelihood of you surprising yourself or finding open doors you didn't even know where there. Cultivate relationships. You will be OK, dear questioner.

You don’t know a thing about the person you’ll turn out to be in a few years. That’s what’s so incredible: When you’re fully alive, you’re constantly surprised. Joy springs from surprise, from uncertainty, from surrender. Romance and trust and deep communion are always left to chance. Dare to cultivate curiosity instead of fear and control. Dare to... See more

I wish I had been told earlier that as long as you truly believe in yourself, everything else will fall into place—the right people will support you, and the right opportunities will come your way. I believe confidence and conviction in your vision attract the energy and connections needed to make it a reality.

It is a good idea, then, to keep in touch, and I suppose that keeping in touch is what notebooks are all about. And we are all on our own when it comes to keeping those lines open to ourselves: your notebook will never help me, nor mine you.