So, yesterday was my birthday — which, of course, has prompted an undue amount of self-reflection. I worked a long 10-hour shift, but Adam made me a sweet, perfectly-me birthday breakfast of roasted brussels sprouts over eggs and some good, sour cheddar with toast.
If you had told me ten years ago, or even five years ago, that at age 28 I would be happily living in Montreal and working as a pastry chef, I would have stared at you in disbelief. When I graduated from college (was it already seven years ago?), I remember thinking that I would definitely be a music journalist, traveling the world and writing every day. I might still return to that, in fact I hope that I do. I often get anxious thinking that I haven’t done enough or accomplished that much. But where I am right now — I’m learning to see how it’s exactly right. Pastry may be a recent passion, but it already feels like it’s been a part of me forever.
My sweet friend Katherine gave me this book, written by an astrology-loving Jungian scholar, for my birthday, and I have been devouring it alive. Here’s to another year of Relating.
Happy belated birthday!
Hope it was another lovely trip around the sun for you. Happy birthday!
happy birthdday, natasha!!
Happy Birthday!
I’ve been reading your blog for a while now and always find it to be most interesting and enjoyable.
Just wanted to pop in and say thanks for the the book recommendation. Being a Jungian lover myself, I can’t wait to read it.
Hope you had a lovely birthday! xx
thank you all for the sweet birthday wishes! xoxo
Was just catching up on your blog, which turned out to be five months worth! Someone gave me Relating seven, eight years ago, and it turned a big idea I had had about myself completely inside out and upside down, in a perfect epiphanic peripateiac(?) replica. Still haven’t lived up to it. Must find that book. Hope you are hoping and so on.
oh jean! luckily the last 5 months of my blog-life have been sparse, so there’s not that much to catch up on, really! you should track down another copy of ‘relating,’ it’s a good one to thumb through for annual-ish dreamlife/real-life reminders + comfort.