spark a flame

There’s a few things I really want to write about and stories I want to tell but I haven’t, yet.

Why?

I think there’s two main reasons.

One: I get overwhelmed by the subjects and don’t know where to start.

Two: the stories are really good and I want to do them justice.

Like the story about my family for example.

It’s an incredible story.

Starting with my great grandparents coming to America through Elis island and settling in Brooklyn as Italian immigrants.

My grandfather is an incredible character, a self taught self made millionaire who loved his family fiercely. The drama that followed his death in the form of betrayal, lies and greed are part of the story. More importantly, so is, truth, redemption and the power of family.

also,

I want to write about my mom.

I want to write about my dad.

I want to tell the story of managing, buying and owning a restaurant.

Leading a team and overcoming all the challenges and doubts that come along with being a young woman in the restaurant industry.

I want to write about questioning my relationship with alcohol after the tumultuous tornado of a year that was 2020.

I want to write about mental health.

I want to wrote about my customers, my travels, my adventures and mis adventures.

I want to write about my school lunches.

I want to write about what I think happens after we die.

I want to write about how nuanced and complex life really is. I have seen how much we all want so desperately to view the world in black and white, good or bad, right or wrong, blue or red.

It’s just not that simple. It just isn’t.

I want to write about how I’ve always had a fire inside of me to live life to the fullest. And how scared I get when I don’t think I am living up to my potential.

How I know in my heart that everyone I have ever met has their own fire burning, even when they, themselves don’t feel it or won’t. I can.

A wonderful woman who comes to love lane kitchen told me that Aries is a fire sign but that it is really the spark that lights the other fire signs in the zodiac. This meant a lot to me. I am an Aries, my blog is called burn brightly, and that is how I feel at my core. And this woman is truly wonderful, literally- she is one of those souls that is full of wonder. Even with all the ways that life can (and will) try to tell you to do otherwise, she remains defiant, and full of wonder.

She is full of fire.

Just like me.

Just like you.