Can I have a Substack, please?
Asking permission no more.
I don't know why I'm starting with this but here we are: Permission.
I've asked permission all my life. If not externally to someone then as a quiet internal process. If there is a choice to be made or an opinion to be had, I’ll first survey the room looking for a consensus on what might be the most palatable way forward for the largest amount of people.
For a long time I believed that meant I didn't know what I wanted or that I didn't want anything bad enough so I might as well just be chill and let the other more hardcore people have their way. I knew how to be happy no matter what.
Guess what? That isn't sustainable and it’s simply untrue.
I do have wants!
So now, here I am, having just turned 37 trying to connect an invisible string from my mind and heart straight through to my wants, my knowing. I see my knowing as a tiny spark inside my body that catches fire when I feel curiosity or joy.
But I know now that the tiny spark is actually a muscle that exists in my body. I need to use it, to strengthen it. I want to work it so hard that I don't have to flex for it to be noticed. It’s going to look incredible in this top come Summer.
What I'm actually trying to say is: I want a Substack.
And, sure, there are many reasons not to do it. It’s an oversaturated space, we don't need more voices, there are much better writers out there, it’s just another social media platform, we're unsubscribing to everything in order to free ourselves from the feeling of having homework in our inboxes, I’m currently writing the third draft on a novel which needs my undivided attention. blah, blah, blah.
Those are all true and yet I know I still want a Substack so I’m granting myself permission (woo!).
Enter GREAT COVER.
What will Great Cover be? I don’t know yet. Mostly a place for me to stretch my brain and exercise my want muscle. Here is what I do know:
I’ll post every Friday.
It will be fun and weird, honest and exploratory.
I know my main purpose for it is joy, connection and community.
I don't have a niche because I'm just not that type of person but I have loads of feelings (I'll try to share those in a coherent manner) and I have even more recommendations (recipes, books, interiors and experiences are my main things).
This is going to be fun, I can feel it.
See you next week!
Can't wait to keep reading this :)