Just Type

When I embarked on this commitment to write every day, sick or feeling fine, I wondered to myself, 'Will I know what to write?' The truth is I am not the best with grammar and punctuation, but I love writing. It is a creative expression that allows the frustration and resolution to make its way onto the pages outside the circles of the mind. There is such beauty in the emotion of the written word that I adore and find magical.

So then I sit here up early and not really feeling great, but showing up to create. The first step is to just type. Similarly to entrepreneurship and building dreams, often when we overthink a system, we don't take action. We sit with a mess in our minds, unsure of the next step, and we just freeze. We don't believe it will work, that what we have to offer matters, and slowly, over time, we begin to back away.

We walk away forgetting the day even existed when we believed in our ideas. There are also times when we show up with our heart on the line asking life to give us our dreams and in return we find a closed door and our heart breaks. Not wanting to feel the loss of the attempt we no longer raise our eyes to the sun to remember what it was to shine.

Yet today, I beg you to dream to lean in and just begin taking those small steps that lead to big leaps. Even when it feels uncomfortable, even when you are not sure whether it will work out. Turn your feet in the direction of the song that is singing in the distance. There is a harmony with humanity that is asking you to believe.

This fashion adventure has given me so many lifetimes that I could not have imagined from being the designer in residence for the Maryland Historical Society’s Fashion Archives.

To working as Head of Innovation for one of Baltimore’s last garment factories…

To studying under another fashion designer, school and manufacturer…

To being the Industry in Residence at the Baltimore Museum of Industry Garment Loft. For all fashion experiences came with a curiosity and a desire to find the way to my dreams. So I just dreamed, I just reached and I just believed that I am here to discover the magic that fashion can become.