I also want to chew a little more on that word, " #project ." It comes from Latin for something thrown forward, https://www.etymonline.com/word/project which French thinker Merleau-Ponty framed as becoming a part of the world by throwing yourself toward your goals.
Read this way, projects are how someone stretches out and shapes the world even as they are shaped by it. That can be big-deal stuff like becoming a household name (but that's not YOU, is it? Being so well-known means your name will glide and skip on many tongues that don't know the weight of it), but it can also be something closer to home, like little scribbles that thrill you and no one else, how the wind smells when a new story starts to grow. Breathing everything around you a little more deeply and rooting deeper into the earth in which you threw the seed.
A project doesn't have to make you rich or scatter your name far and wide. Projects at heart are how we live, flying gleefully into our being even while we grow more grounded and unflappable from knowing who and where we are. Big or small, known everywhere or to one, it's all worth it and makes us more whole. #TootEssay #etymology
