Baby Steps

Hello, blog world. I've been toying with the idea of creating a blog for some time, convincing myself of a thousand reasons why I shouldn't start. The biggest reason (and possibly this is some too-true blog foreshadowing) is that I'm busy. I might forget about this and leave it to wither in blog-land like so many others before it. But that would defeat my point.

I'm beginning an adventure, or continuing an old one, depending on how you look at it. I'm in a space that makes me feel comfortable, confident and connected to the way I live my life and the people I am lucky enough to share it with. The concept of sustainability is one which I've been toying with since I could spell it. As a proud co-founder of the Eco Club at my high school (which had approximately 6 meetings in its entire existence) I was determined to prove that sustainability came from turning lights off when leaving a classroom. At the ripe age of 18 sustainability was proving that I could buy my toothbrush and groceries all by myself, my parents didn't need to do it for me. Today, the concept has an ethereal quality; in some conversations it means buying food from local sources, others it means rejecting corporate products and in more recent conversations it has been complicated and torn apart by stories from coal miners in Appalachia and Colombia.

But that is what I want to blog about. I'm in my 20's (just barely), taking the time to slow down and think more extensively about the choices I make is something I have the luxury and foresight to do at this moment in my life. Exploring options like making my own toothpaste, eating local, playing games, running and reading for pleasure are things I want to do in order to discover what my life looks like; sustained.