Believing in: A Field Guide to Now

Have you ever believed in something? Have you ever wanted something very much? As women I think believing in ourselves is very hard, it isn’t something that comes naturally, at least not for me. Belief in yourself takes years of hard work and self-love. Most of all believing in yourself means you have to take risks.

There are some people you go through life looking up to and respecting, sometimes wanting to be, sometimes feeling a bit of that competitive edge with and fighting to be better than. For me there is one person in my life like this, Christina. She had been there for me through many hard spots, and she has also at times been the root of some of those hard spots, she has been a role model and a rival. She has been a friend and an enemy. She has been selfish and caring. She is my older sister. Right now she is fighting to believe. To believe in a project that puts her life’s work, her writing and art, forward into the world in a way it never has been. She is taking a risk. The thing that is so incredible about being her sister despite our rough patches is I believe her and back her in this project 100% more then 100%. Not a day goes by where I don’t wish I had more money to give to support her amazing endeavors. Because I think in some small way I believe if she can not make this project: A Field Guide to Now, happen then no one can do anything, and we are all, well just Doomed… Okay maybe not but that’s how I feel right now, she is so close to her funding goal to make this dream a reality, to make this risk worth taking. There are only fifteen days left, please visit her project on Kickstarter NOW and help, just a dollar if nothing else because if there is nothing else I have learned in life, its that every small act is worth making because everything makes a difference.

Why not make a difference? Help one more women have a bit of a stronger belief in herself. Well actually two, because in her success, I too will find some small piece of courage, as I imagine countless others will too.