Sometimes silence can feel worse than fingernails on a chalkboard. Thank you to all the followers of this blog for your immense patience with the last 5 months of silence. Rusty and I have been hard at work behind the scenes, and at some point late last year, social media, this blog, and digital sharing just completely went by the wayside for Badass Backpacks. That silence has been partially due to Rusty and me hiding and it’s partially been a product of emotional labor being spent on making big decisions.
For the hiding — hehehe — I apologize. And for our big decisions — I am grateful for your patience. I’m excited to give you some lightning round updates on what’s up with Badass Backpacks. If you’re skimming, make sure to read the final bullet point as it pertains to the future of this blog and upcoming updates:
- Our Website has been updated! Thank you Rusty! Feedback always welcome. Step by step, we’re evolving.
- Speaking of evolving — we’ve got a new backpack coming to life, and we’re giddy with excitement for how it’s shaping up. In 2017 we began working with The Milspo Project to explore the possibilities of creating a backpack that speaks to the journeys and adventures of military spouses. It’s a beautiful story, for a beautiful tribe of amazing people that we believe are magical: military spouses “at every station, in every season.” Proceeds from sales of this bag will support the work of the Milspo Project, and preorders will begin on May 11: Military Spouse appreciation day. Stay tuned, we’ll be sharing more in the days ahead.
- Other new bags in the works — behind the scenes our 2018 theme exploration has been going full throttle and we’re slowly changing our minds for how we might get our bags into more peoples’ journeys. New designs and new partnerships are all just starting to wake up and bloom in front of our very eyes.
- Badass Backpacks has been in a mind-changing mood lately. With the new website, we’re looking to figure out the best ways to keep you, our audience up to date. Looking to find new ways to connect. In the past we’ve spread our digital sharing across many different platforms, and now we’re beginning to consolidate. We’re creating a new blog that will be a little bit different. … and that means saying goodbye to the backpacksfordinner blog! You’ve read this blog. Some of you have read this entire blog. Some of you read it in your browser; some in your inbox. Many of you have sent love notes and encouragement, and a few have harassed me during the last 5 months of silence. I am so thankful for all of you!
- The new blog is up! Check it out here! Going forward, if you are an email subscriber to this blog, you can expect to start receiving eNewsletter emails from time to time, replacing email updates each time a blog post is published. When you receive those emails, as always, you will be able to unsubscribe using the links at the bottom of the messages.
With new things blooming, this blog experiment (http://backpacksfordinner.com and http://adam.backpacksfordinner.com) is now floating into the sunset… it was such an amazing experiment, and a neat chance to explore my voice. This blog was the breaking of a silence, the sound of change, the sound of stretching, the sound of looking for our footing, and the sound of joyfully stumbling along the way. Some of my posts here make me smile when I reflect and read them, while others make me cringe, wince, and laugh with myself. Backpacksfordinner, this blog, began with an exclamation of gratitude, and it ends the same way — I’m so grateful for the ever evolving journey that Badass Backpacks is on: gratitudes of the highest order! Thank YOU so much! Let’s keep shipping.
(Alejandra helping me to wrap a bag – giving me a high five… for shipping. Big smile!)