I went for a walk with a friend this week, and after she mentioned how much she was enjoying reading our newsletters she paused and asked me what a lot of people ask us….Isn’t it scary? I sighed and thought OH MY GOD, YES!
Her question made me realize that even though we might make this look easy, in reality, it’s not. It takes a lot of vulnerability to write these suckers.
For example, it took us several months to finally summon the courage to send this newsletter called “3 Things We Are Most Embarrassed to Admit. ” After we pressed send, we were so nervous to read all the responses that poured in that Greg and I went around and turned off every electronic device in the house (Thanks to all who reached out-your kindness and words of encouragement meant the world to us once our adrenaline finally came down!).
There was another time a that I got cold feet a few minutes before we sent this newsletter out. I called a good friend for reassurance and made her listen while I literally read the newsletter out loud to make sure that admitting that my family skinny dips didn’t make me look too crazy (Thanks for listening Mariah!).
So, to answer the question you’ve probably been wondering: Yes, speaking our truth here can be scary for sure! But, we do it anyways and here’s why:
We show up because we have a hunch that the connections we’re building through this newsletter are in service to YOU and OUR community. We want our stories – whether they’re the ones that are entertaining, silly, embarrassing or messy – to help connect you to food, to farmers, and to farming.
To our detriment, these connections have become rare these days and have gone missing in most of our lives…and we feel called to do the work to build them back up again, even if it means we have the occasional Friday night freak-out.
Since we are overcoming our fears, we have to think that you can overcome your fears, too. What is that conversation in your life you’re scared of having? Or that next step that you’re afraid of taking? We’re a lot stronger than we give ourselves credit ourselves for. You might find, like we have, that taking that leap of faith and being vulnerable is SO worth it.
Your farmers,
Greg and Jenney