Welcome to Notes From Home
A little rebrand for a little spot on the internet
I launched first iteration of The Goodness Collective years ago with a vision to host a number of voices celebrating what makes life good and beautiful. The name stuck for a long time, and would still work just fine, but I’ve come to realize that I’ve been casting too wide a net. I was holding space for topics and projects that the life God’s given me just doesn’t have room for.
The truth is that I spend most of my time at home, tending my place and my people. And for a time (long enough) I was reluctant to admit that my writing needed to follow suit. I wanted my writing to be bigger than my life, bigger than my kids, bigger than my budget, etc. I say this with no small amount of shame, but I’d bought into the lie that a life spent at home is less worthy of thought and celebration than a life spent out there achieving and producing in public. (The irony is not lost on me that I just turned in an entire manuscript rebutting this belief.) But this is my life, and I can only write about a life that is mine, one that I’m actually living, and the life that I’m living is mainly at home.
Over the weekend, I sensed an invitation to make this space a little more specific, a little more honest; to write about what is true and mine even though sometimes what is mine feels heavy and confusing, even though I don’t always feel very good at what it is I’ve been called to do.
So that’s what I’m doing today: Goodness Weekly is now Notes from Home: Essays and Poems from the Thick of it. This space is dedicated to the things that ground and humanize us: our place, our work, our people, and our nearness to God.
Each week, I’ll post an essay that touches on one of these topics or more in some combination (they are not very easily separated). I also hope to share one poem a week, but I can’t make promises on those ;) I can say with certainty that this will not become a parenting blog or a space solely dedicated to the raising of children. It isn’t because I don’t love those things, but because I know I am not the voice you need to hear on those topics. I am guessing my way through this season, and not always accurately. Instead, you’ll find honest reflections on what it actually feels like to become a mother, to follow Jesus, to pursue beauty, to think and feel deeply, and to figure out how it all fits together.
As it’s been, almost all of the content will be free and available to all subscribers. But since writing is my job, I’ll also be crafting monthly content bundles for paid subscribers that will include resources to supplement the truth, goodness, and beauty already abundant in your very good life. If you choose to become a paid subscriber today, you’ll receive your first content bundle at the beginning of February—and you’ll receive my gratitude immediately.
I’m honored to have your eyes and attention in a world that demands it with such fervor. Thank you for being here. I hope you’ll stick around! And I hope that you’ll find something here that makes you feel at least a little less alone.
Peace and joy to you, my friend.
Katie