Stumble and Discover

“… stumble and discover …”
– Amy Jordan during Improv Level I class @ The New Movement Theater, ATX

A long while of silence … and it’s time to pick the blog back up.  The last few months have been full of stumbles, of beautiful discoveries, and of some great steps forward.  I’ve been quiet on the blog front.  We’ve picked up a number of new followers during the time away from regularly blogging.  Heads up that I’m currenty rolling up my sleeves and channeling some things I learned earlier in the year during the altMBA:  I have a new goal to pick up the pace on our blog space:  Backpacks for Dinner.

Where have we been?  And what have been doing? (So, where are we on this initiative?)

Backpacks for Dinner (BFD):  Yes!  We’re still gathering each and every Tuesday to put ourselves inside this project.  The summertime brought more connections our way as we met some new friends, and shared good times with old ones.  Thank you to many of you who have been a part of those BFD sessions!  Whew — I’ve got a lot of material for the fall time sharing.

Back-burner simmer:  The last few months have been a great time to reflect on, revisit, and internalize our discussions around the models we want to experiment with as we evolve Badass Backpacks.  I’ll work with Rusty on how we can start to share more here on the blog about where those discussions have taken us.  We’re enjoying the conversation (almost too much).  It will be fun to share more about that experience.  But, our real focus and use of time this summer:

We’re working on a new bag!  Long time coming right!?  I’ll be excited to start talking more here in the coming days about what our “Next” looks like.  Next steps, next bags, next journeys.  This new bag’s story is beginning to take shape.  It’s a bag about finding something in the strangest of places, and maybe even finding a glimpse of ourselves.  More details coming soon.  

And what about Sincerity Inside?

Our first bags have begun selling and we’re slowly starting to see them pop up around the world.  Thank you to the patrons and Sincerity Inside wearers that have been sending me photos and posting them online.  If you’re into social media — check us out on Facebook and on Instagram.  Our conversations about how we want to take Badass Backpacks to the next step include a lot of discussion about what we want to do with our online storytelling.  It needs to evolve a bit – there are some amazing, yet untold, stories that are happening right now.  Instead of moping about how I’ve failed to share those stories over the summer — I’ll choose to simply embrace the fact that I have some neat stories to share about the Sincerity Inside journey.  We only made 100 bags … which means that I’m able to keep very close track of who has one — Many of our blog followers own one — and you all are blowing me away with how you are choosing to put yourself inside!  Keep moving!  Your stories and conversations are a source of inspiration to me.

Some last thoughts:

I’ve been following some new blogs recently and during much of the summer I even carved out some time for reading (when you’re a dad of 3 this is a feat).  As I sat down to get this blog post up this evening, I glanced through Jessica Abel’s recent post, and it comforted me greatly – it made me smile.  It caught my attention when I saw her Step 1 for grabbing a restart by the horns:  “Step 1: Self forgiveness.”  Part of my summertime quietness on this blog has been a compounding feeling of having lost momentum with posting more regularly.  It’s a shame that I’ve let that feeling compound on top of itself and that I’ve allowed that to be a burden for me.  Silly really.  Throwing the “shoulds” out the window, I’m excited to recommit to posting a bit more about what Rusty and I are up to… not because I should — but because I want to.  Thank you Jessica!  I’m loving your blog btw.

The equinox is right around the corner.  And I’m excited to put the summertime heat behind me.  The equinox is a fabulous time to celebrate winds of change.  And the wind is blowing.  It’s Tuesday night people!  Time for BFD — let’s keep moving.

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