12/03/2026
Hiii. [Awkward social post to let people know I've launched a newsletter on my website that I'm gradually padding out with rad custom coding, both things of which I'm pretty proud/excited to make more of.
"Collecting Shards" — an amalgamation of my low-key obsession with "The Alchemist" by Paolo Coelho, inspiration taken from Susan Cain's "Bittersweet", and a whole bunch of notes and research from my own book project I'm looking to share more of with the world (while getting my writing practise back on track). A snippet:
"A couple years back, I began work on a rather monumental idea for a book project (affectionately named Paola) that very much sought me out, not the other way around. To summarise super quick, Paolo Coelho’s worldly masterpiece "The Alchemist" danced within my orbit in a wholly unexpected way over a decade-long period, and once the book got into my hands, began to instruct and inform my life’s unique path, tune my moral and spiritual compass, in a way that no other material has.
This divine entanglement — and I realise how eye-rollingly fluffy it sounds to say that, but truly what it is — set off a low-key obsession with not only studying "The Alchemist" cover-to-cover a bunch of times…but then looking up and recognising, with a gasp, that I was now sitting in a luscious garden, spilling over with fruits and flowing waters and roots and grasses and gleaming stones and bejewelled butterflies that were the interconnected treasures of wisdom, inspiration, and instruction embedded everywhere in the world around me, which continue to re-wild my life with a personal narrative that feels more authentic, inimitable, and meaningful by the day."
This is what I'll be sharing with you. The shards — fragmented pieces of beauty and divinity scattered about the earth — I've collected along my way that may reflect a part of you within them; make you think a little deeper, wider, weirder.
If you catch my drift, do have a read. If you want. Let me know your thoughts if you choose to pick this one up. Much love x] Mmk byyeee now.
💡Before you dive in: Thank you so much for taking the time to read my first-ever CS newsletter. I'm always making excuses to not put my creative endeavours out when I want to due to having my hands tied by perfectionism, and so...this is me practising saying f**k you
