It is a common fallacy among writers, or so I am told, to see our own lives as a narrative arc.\u00a0 I am more guilty of this than most.\u00a0 I know that it is a fallacy.\u00a0 I know that real life is, for better and worse, much, much stranger than fiction.\u00a0 I know that mortal lives are always messier than that. \u00a0And yet \u2026 the arc of a story remains the chief frame through which I experience the world.<\/p>\n
The last chapter of my life began when, upon graduating college, I moved back to Kansas City.\u00a0 I returned to the mall jewelry store where I had spent the previous six years, off and on.\u00a0 I volunteered with the organization that puts on the festival that had been the highlight of my year since 1999.\u00a0 I got involved in a relationship with someone who, though the romance didn’t last, has proved one of the best friends I’ve ever had.\u00a0 I buckled down and finished my first novel, and successfully ran a Kickstarter to start a publishing company to print that novel.\u00a0 I started producing jewelry of my own design, mostly for myself and my closest friends, but solid work that I’m proud of.\u00a0 I took up a whole new art, photography, which I grow better at each time I pick up my camera.<\/span><\/p>\n In December of this year, I formally resigned from all my positions and responsibilities within the festival organization.\u00a0 In February, I released my novel into the world.\u00a0 In March I taught one of my energy work classes at the Witches’ Meet-Up, my first class hosted outside the HSA. \u00a0All this to say, I believe that these events mark the start of a new chapter in my life.\u00a0 I don’t know, precisely, what the road will look like, but it is my hope that it ends with me as a full time professional Pagan.\u00a0 I’m already working in a Pagan jewelry store.\u00a0 I have just released a Pagan novel.\u00a0 I am building a small repertoire of workshops on magical technical skills.<\/p>\n In the last chapter of my life, I took on too much responsibility, too quickly, without adequately vetting the people I was working with.\u00a0 In this next chapter of my life, I hope to deepen my personal practice, to deepen the relationships that survived the previous chapter, and to make more art.<\/p>\n Thank you everyone who’s been along for the ride.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It is a common fallacy among writers, or so I am told, to see our own lives as a narrative arc.\u00a0 I am more guilty of this than most.\u00a0 I know that it is a fallacy.\u00a0 I know that real life is, for better and worse, much, much stranger than fiction.\u00a0 I know that mortal … Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[38,134],"class_list":["post-4823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-by-the-way-im-crazy","tag-keeping-score"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8kUcm-1fN","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4824,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4823\/revisions\/4824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}