The Internal Compass Rose…

You may not take the course that everyone else does. Nor the one you planned from the start, but if you follow your inspiration and roll with life’s crazy waves, you may find you end up exactly where you were always meant to be.

Our logo’s wave is reminiscent of The Great Wave of Kanagawa, highlighting the struggle between our ideals and what the world hands us. It also inspired my very favorite piece of art, Starry Night, by Vincent Van Gogh.

The extreme, overwhelming feel of the wave’s vast depths and claw-like crests that threaten to pull you under captures the struggle of living in a world where everything is not, nor ever will be, 100% great. But as the Italian poet Dante once said, “The clash between nature and humans is sealed in that prior moment, where anything can yet occur.”

The compass rose is off-kilter, because if you look in the dictionary, off-kilter is described as unusual, quirky, abnormal, offbeat, or even off-the-wall.

And maybe that is exactly what we need?

Our weirdness is what makes us fun; it makes us entertaining, unique, and most of all, it makes us who we are. We are all Unicorns; rare, mythical, magical creatures in our own wonderful, beautifully peculiar ways.

And maybe, if we learn to embrace our zaniness, others will be able to embrace theirs too.

Let your little light shine forth, let your freak flag fly high, and maybe, just maybe, we’ll end up with a world where we are all celebrated, encouraged, and supported in following our dreams, as well as creating our own art.

Wouldn’t that be a wonderful thing?

If anyone doesn’t like it, let them go. For, as Dr. Seuss famously wrote, “Those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.”

Be you. Always. Forever. Wherever you may be, follow your Internal Compass Rose.

Have Latitudes of Gratitude because you never know where the next wave of life may take you… And we are only here for so long…