Take Two
Hi there—Salam and welcome!
I’m embarrassed. As the name suggests, this is ‘take two’ of setting up a website, my website, and sharing it with the world. Yup—it took that long for this site to go up officially.
You’ll see posts here from 2021, early 2021 when I was full of a new and burgeoning energy, a nascent and fledgling belief in myself, shaky on toddler legs unused to walking--yet there I was trying to run a marathon on those shaky legs! I lost steam quickly, the doubts set in and I gave up pretty quickly. ‘Who am I kidding?’ I thought to myself, ‘you can’t do this, it’s beyond you! And who are you anyway?’
I recognize now that many of my doubts had been hanging around for a long, long time and knew just how to wrestle confidence out of me. But circumstances in the past two years didn’t help my creative life either. During the Pandemic, my husband became gravely ill and I nearly lost him. His recovery has been a long two year battle and my days and nights became about him. How could I focus on my writing when the one I loved most was struggling with a life-altering experience?
No one talks about how the illness of a loved one can impact everything in your life. How your dreams can become dust, disappear into the ether the moment you realize that someone you love, maybe more than anything in the whole world, is direly in need of you.
So while I continued to work on bits and pieces of writing, this site stayed dormant. I paid for it and watched it sit month after month. I simply couldn’t bring myself to work on it or the podcast.
The beauty of time is that it passes. And that with it’s passing, healing also comes. It is now September 2022 and I’m feeling readier, steadier and more confident about myself as a writer. I know that this little piece of me that I’ve been hanging on to will only grow if I plant it in the soil of the wider world.
So, Bismillah, in the sacred name of the Divine, here goes!
It’s not much right now dear reader…but for this gal, just getting this going is a big deal and I know, this is just baby steps. That’s how we all start, right?
I’m looking forward to growing so much here. And I hope you’ll keep stopping by to chat and share –
I’ll be looking forward to it!
Peace and love always,
Tabassum