The weekend was the best yet! By far. Joy, beauty, so very many smiling faces, quite a few tears, and people doing what it is that they love to do. I am totally basking in the glow of the weekend that was.
It was also an absolute pleasure for us to run. And as crazy as it sounds - when bringing over 100 people together from all over Australia and NZ - there was not a single hitch.
Well... ok that wasn't entirely true. Four women, who will remain nameless (as you know who you are!), forgot their toothbrushes :). Luckily, the ever-lovely Claire did a shop run on Saturday morning to deal with "the issue" and after returning with a suite of replacement brushes, joy was reinstated in the bush.
I wanted to have all the photos edited and up on the blog this morning, but that is what is called an "unrealistic expectation". And we aren't fond of those around these parts. I also wanted to have some winners chosen for the prizes by today but there were 203 beautiful comments that I really want to take my time perusing. Again with the unrealistic, thinking I'd get it done today..... so I'll be back Friday with both those things.
Can I just tell you though, I started downloading the photos tonight, as you will see from the random couple I have added here, and jeepers they are pretty. The few hours it takes to edit those puppies is going to be a total joy. I get to relive the whole retreat over again.
So big thanks for following along. And big thanks for coming. You lot - obviously excepting the toothbrush forgetters - are totally ace.
Felicia x
So I wrote last week a post asking “Is my making fast fashion?”. And then I did a video on Instagram discussing similar topics in a slightly different way. And as always, you lovely humans have helped me clarify some of my thinking with your thoughtful, clever commentary.
And while I think there is so much more to discuss, here are four key possibly-more-meta ideas that have come up for me out of those conversations.
In using the quote last week that suggested that there was no single answer, and suggesting that this was freeing, I really did mean that we should sit in the grey. Not that the lack of “an” answer to this question should mean we get to ignore the question but rather that the lack of “an” answer means that we need to keep asking bigger more beautiful questions. And keep asking them.
Is my making fast fashion?
Am I living my values or merely thinking them?
And how can I make those two things a little more aligned in this moment?
These are my big beautiful questions.
Yours might be different.
And importantly this leads to point 2.