Okay, TRIBE’sters… you know who you are. I SEE you! I see your comments… I receive your e-mails… some of you have sent me your stories… some have sent me photos… some have sent me poems…! Some of you – I have met in person. Many of you have become online friends.
YOU are the peeps who get it…
You are the ones that I can just relax with… and be HAT… (and not feel as though I need to add ten-thousand flippin’ disclaimers)… because you guys GET it already. You understand “Hat”. You understand this… I dunno… yearning… need… to live differently.
You are the questioners, big-dreamers, out-of-the-box thinkers… who believe there is SO MUCH MORE to life than “normal”. You’re not comfortable with this whole status-quo thing. You’re not comfortable with the idea that One-Size-Fits-All.
You’re journey-people… searchers… questioners…
And – like me – you’re DONE with The-Done-Thing.
And you also know that life is short and precious and beautiful. And what a great and terrible pity it would be to waste said short, precious life on bland-mundane’ness, “surviving”, “getting-by”, “making-do”, hoop-jumping, box-ticking and trying to live up to endless…. life-sucking… expectations.
You have a different understanding of what the world calls “success”. For you – success is not defined in terms of what you own, what you earn, what you wear or how you look… it is sooooo much deeper than that.
We have a lot in common – us TRIBE‘sters.
Let’s collaborate! Let’s journey together! Let’s help each-other out. Let’s brainstorm. Let’s share art, ideas, resources… and connections. Perhaps I can share YOUR work and your art with my circles… perhaps you can help me get my book out there (since I pretty-much SUCK at all things marketing / selling / PR, etc). Perhaps you have connections that you could plug me in to (and vice versa). Perhaps we can organise a tour… an event… a something in your part of the world (have passport, will travel)….?
I dunno….
I don’t have all the answers all neatly lined up. I don’t know how this could all look…
But – I am a journey-person… and I love collaborating and connecting with like-minded peeps… and I’m thinking: how can we journey together … how can I help you??
Tribe’sters… you know who you are.
Ask me questions. Send suggestions. Whatevs. Drop me an e-mail (heather@themadhat.co.za) … or reply to this blog post… let’s get plotting!
Hat X
Hat, I love your posts because your thoughts resonate with me. Thank you for being brave enough to just be you and for encouraging others to do the same. I hope to contribute somehow to your mission. I dont know how yet but it will happen. Thanks for a great post today and keep up your “hatness”!!! Love it! Scott, Auburn, Alabama USA
Thanks, Scott!! I appreciate your lovely words! I have driven through Alabama once – but never visited properly… (too much world to see – too little time!!)… I’ll be throwing some ideas around in future posts – and if anything resonates with you… just get in touch! And yes – it will happen as it needs to… a timing thing, maybe… 🙂 Have a great day! x
Awesome ideas! When I was young I wanted to be part of an artistic/creative collective and spend my days making beautiful things. Then life and expectations took over, I forgot how to be creative and how much love I have for it. Over the last year I have rediscovered this part of me and it is a joyful thing. My early ideas of a collective only extended to my family as a lot of us are artistic, but girl, you are taking it to a whole new level! How cool would it be to have a worldwide group of people bouncing ideas off each other! I LOVE your photo by the way, you are very beautiful!
This sounds amazing! I’d love to be part of a collaboration, I don’t have any genius ideas off the top of my head, but you have me thinking! Dorean in Pennsylvania, USA
I’m thinking too, Dorean….!! I have a bunch of IDEAS… but still trying to figure out what might (or might not) work best. Maybe I’ll just write a post and throw all the ideas out there…and see what resonates with folk… 🙂