11/10/2025
It is said the Universe Will Present you with the same lesson until you learn what is meant to be learned.
As I’ve gotten back to sharing my work… there’s been slight disconnect with my voice and words, in part due to the time that has lapsed since creating and in another part because what was happening beyond and behind the squares we see.
That in retrospect the question still begs, why share now. Why bring the personal into it… why not keep it “professional”
Oooff, loaded and valid POV’s.
But the truth is in Small Business when you are self employed , and you are the one who has to keep showing up,
And the day this picture was taken on July 5, 2024 what was about to happen would be one of those lessons. This is what business school won’t teach you. These catastrophic life events that occur in the lives of all of us, that
These are the real life gut wrenching the worse thing that happens to anyone , is the worse thing that happens to them.
Regardless of all of the understanding, empathy and compassion one is capable of.
It was delivery day and installation day for Beauty Haven sign, which btw is one of my most favorite designs and builds.
I was at the studio wrapping up the last min details and getting ready to load the sign into the truck, when my phone rang.
It was my dad.
My dad who had called me a few months prior from FL and said , “the rent is paid up until June”.
Which was code for … I need a place to live.
Before I even considered the ramifications on me and my life and where I was at, I offered my home. And he had come to live with me …and try to get …well. Or as well as anyone can be in active addiction.
I paused whatever I was doing and , I picked up the call,
“Brittany, this is your dad”
Always , he always said that as if I didn’t know who it was.
“Hi dad, what’s up?”
“Can you come pick us up, we had an accident”
And in that moment I was faced with having to abandon myself and reschedule an already overdue delivery or abandon him and do what was best for me in that moment.
While I am still on my … let’s call it Codependency healing journey…
I wasn’t even aware of what Codependency meant then.
I processed his emergency as my own.