Dear Wild Dreamer, Letter #4

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Dear Wild Dreamer,

You’re going to have to get uncomfortable.

You’re going to have to stretch yourself. Strengthen your belief. Harness your reserves.

You’re going to have to take risks—big, small, and the kind that feel like they aren’t getting you anywhere in the moment, but will get you everywhere in the end.

You’re going to have to get visible. You’re going to have to shine your light for the world to see. Not by forcing it, but by being more and more yourself.

It’s going to get hard. You’re going to want to quit, and sometimes you will. But the quitting doesn’t matter; it’s the getting back up and tagging yourself back in that does.

You’re going to hate it. You’re going to love it.

You’re going to feel all the feelings between them all.

And still . . .

You’re going to have to keep going. Keep pressing forward. Keep putting one foot in front of the other.

You’re going to have to breathe. To expand. To get comfortable with taking up space.

But in the end, when you arrive at your Wild Dream destination. You’ll celebrate yourself, and take whatever time you need.

Then dust yourself off and begin it all again.

This is how we grow. This is how we live our best life.

This is how we feel alive.

By living.

By taking chances.

By betting on ourselves, heading out into the world, and sticking our landing.

And doing it all—however messy, chaotic, interspersed—no matter what.

You’re going to have to show up.

And today is a wonderful day, as ever, to begin.

🙏🏽 And so it is 🙏🏽

Our next Salon Wild is Thursday, April 23rd at 7pm CST!

Our theme is Wild. And our doors are open for readers!!! Submit your writing, poetry, essays, flash fiction—whatever you write—around the theme of WILD here.

Submissions close Friday, April 16th.

Selected readers will be notified on or before Sunday, April 19th.

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