Good morning dear friends of planet Internet!

This is my 6th and hopefully final attempt at coming up with a blog name I actually like and want to be associated with.  Yes, I did come up with those previous 5 blog names myself....  

There was the idea of having a music and food blog called 'Beats and Beets'... somehow this one never even saw the light of a first post.  

There was 'the lemon letter'... I don't even know what that means, but it sounds nice right?

Then 'Feel the wood' which was inspired by a quote that I had taped on the neck of my Yamaha acoustic guitar that said "Feel the words" but a friend once looked at the scribbly writing and said "Feel the wood?!?!" 

Then "Coast and Color" which I can only assume came about during an extremely short but intense love affair with the band City and Color.

I digress. I would log in to blogger and see these ^^^ blog names and feel embarrassed about them.  They didn't feel like me and even though I wanted to blog everyday, I couldn't bring myself to do it.  I want my blog to be many things: useful, powerful, inspiring, lovely.  But mostly I want it to be authentic.  

Grace and Janiper is about as close to me as one can get.  This is Grace.  She's 10 years old and has extra toes.  Janiper is a little bit camera shy so I'll have to ask her if I can take her picture for a blog.

Right now I'm writing this post from Ladysmith, Vancouver Island, British Columbia and I've been married for 19 days today.  In 2 days, my new husband and I will be driving our new car (that we just purchased from his Grandma Joan) back to Montreal.   It's a 4,973 km journey and I admit I'm a little antsy about it.  

We'll be driving the majority of the way through the Northern states and then up through Ontario and into Quebec.  We'll try to do this in about 4 days, because we were invited to play a show on Sunday afternoon and we'd really like to be there for it.  

It's a crazy exciting time for my new husband and I and my reasons for the blog are somewhat selfish at this point. If nothing more, it is a nice documentation of where we are at right now, which is a pretty inspiring place to be.  If the people of planet internet want to join me in my journey all the better!   

Have a beautiful summer day,

all love,

tasha