03/07/2026
this is the first picture i ever posted to this account.
so amateur, back in the good ol days when instagram was new and filters weren't a thing.
it was 2016, i was 24 and had just started my etsy store, and i was in the midst of a complete breakdown. coming here and posting pictures of beautiful interesting books and selling them gave me purpose then, when i saw no point in anything and was hopeless about the future.
10 years later, the world is now the worst it's ever been, in my opinion, and hope is hard again--but, my perspective is changed from what it was then to where i am now. today, without this being the original plan for me at all, i have a real physical bookstore in the world, 13k followers and a decade of happy memories bookselling.
posting this for myself i guess, as a reminder, and maybe for you too if you need to hear it, if you're struggling too.
i can't possibly know the potential goodness waiting ahead in the future, and it could be so much better than i worry and fear, and i won't find out unless i keep going, hoping, fighting.
so see you all on march 28 yah? ♥️ thank you for all your support
