There are so many words in my head these days. They're on half scribbled notes shoved in my purse. They swirl around while I'm in the shower and then go down the drain with the water, or they keep me up in the wee hours of the morning. They're in small journals stuffed in desk drawers. It's all scattered and not cohesive. There are barely formed sentences and fragments of verses. Half a concept here and the other half somewhere over there. Some are about parenting, some on the act of blogging and writing itself. Many are about craft and making and what it all means. There are thoughts on food, and education, and home. I'm sure that if they're all gathered together, I can mold and stitch them together into something meaningful. But I'm not. I sit to write here and I come up blank most of the time.
This has been a long time coming, but I'm going to officially step away from this blog. I think it has served its purpose in my life and brought me amazing people and ideas and community that I treasure. But at this point, I need to know that it's not waiting for me to sit and write my words here, nagging at me to be in a place that doesn't fit anymore. Right now, my words are elsewhere - in this concrete real life I have. They're on paper and in stitches. They are in the time Kit and I spend at the kitchen table, drawing and writing and in the work Gunnar and Annika are doing. They're in the walks we take to run errands and in the evenings that Jeff and I wander around the corner for a beer or two. They're being written every day with everything we do together. For some reason, they don't come when I sit to type here - they no longer belong in this place. It's time for moving on.
I'm sure the words (and the pictures) will find another home. They always do when they need to be said. Thank you for being here with me in this place for the last 5+ years. I loved every minute of it.
As sad as this is for me, that was so beautifully written and I do wish you and your family a thousand joys always. Thank you for sharing your life with us.
Posted by: Megan Young | February 11, 2013 at 04:56 PM
<3
understood, for sure.
Posted by: Sarah | February 11, 2013 at 04:58 PM
Megan found words for what I feel.
Posted by: Julia Freund | February 12, 2013 at 12:13 AM
hugs, my friend.
Posted by: Heather | February 12, 2013 at 04:25 AM
It's sad to see you leave but so good for you that you are living a life so full you don't have time/space for here anymore.
Posted by: Kelly | February 12, 2013 at 05:31 AM
I don't know how I can across you in the first place, Sarah, but so glad I did. I love your candid, thoughtful take on life. All the best as you keep on livin' life!:)
Posted by: Sarah Jane | February 12, 2013 at 10:40 AM
Megan said it for me too. Thank you for sharing when it felt right and I wish you such luck and love along the way of this next season of your life. xxx
Posted by: Jules | February 12, 2013 at 01:04 PM
Wow. I feel strangely... shocked. Thank you for sharing as much as you have. I haven't been much of a blog reader for a while now, but yours will be one I'll certainly miss.
And lastly, good for you. :-)
Posted by: emily | February 12, 2013 at 10:05 PM
you'll be missed (but I know where to find you!)
Posted by: beki | February 13, 2013 at 08:02 AM
Thank you! Are you on Facebook? I'm definitley more present there these days than I am on my blog.
Posted by: Kathy | February 13, 2013 at 10:21 AM
It's been fun to be along for the ride!
Posted by: Hanna | February 13, 2013 at 06:12 PM
...it must be going around. See you over at our usual haunts.
Posted by: jane | February 17, 2013 at 06:41 AM