In last week’s “island vibes” message I wrote that my little family's current on-the-road-again season of house-less living is coming to an end. In just over five months, we’ve lived in six homes in three different states, visited our storage unit way too many times, and spent a large majority of our free time talking about, thinking about, and shopping for our next home.

Last week, we thought we had found the one. After a month of dreaming about a particular property and two full weeks of real estate negotiations, we were under contract for a dreamy little house and were about to finish the final steps and get ready to sign on the dotted line. Then, everything changed.

We were disappointed. We didn’t want to have wasted everyone’s time. We didn’t want to have wasted so much of our own time and the money we shelled out to fly across the country, rent a car, stay in a hotel, etc. But it just didn’t work out.

Now, we’re back to the drawing board with perhaps a little less courage or a little more wisdom, depending on how you look at it. Still, it stings and adds pressure to the search.

Thankfully, nature therapy is softening the sting ⤵

(Click to watch my Tybee sunrise video)

Walking the beach at sunrise yesterday morning, I remembered a quote that brought me a lot of comfort at this very same time a few years ago when my little family was dealing with a big sting of disappointment after we tried boat life and failed hard...

"When the sun sets on one big dream, rest for a beat and watch — it’s about to rise and shine bright on another one."

These words certainly don’t apply to everyone’s disappointing situation, of course, and they certainly don’t apply to the loss that some of you have been through or are going through right now. But when the words came floating into my heart yesterday morning, I couldn’t ignore how they apply to my current disappointment and how grateful I am to have a big dreamer’s heart full of buried, forgotten dreams to mine through.

I’m excited to see which dream’s turn it might be now.

Wherever you are this morning, whatever you’re dealing with or sorting through in your heart and mind, I hope you feel hope rising in your heart — and maybe a few long-buried dreams resurfacing like I do, too. If you’ve encountered disappointments lately or even the sunset of a big dream or two, I hope the sun rises on something new for you very soon.

If you need me this weekend, I’ll be waiting for sunrises, walking the beach during the sunset hour, listening to Big Magic in my earbuds (again), a southern beach read novel waiting for me on the couch in my Airbnb temporary home. And house shopping.

💛
Celeste

A Quote for Sunsetting Dreams

"When the sun sets on one big dream, rest for a beat and watch — it’s about to rise and shine bright on another one."