The last few days has been a test. Every now and then, I question everything there is or was--including the food that I make and bake. If the shop were a suitcase, I'd be the gypsy that I feel I am and pack that bad boy up ever so often--including this past week.
But thank God for friends.
A friend told me today that, "If someone took all your recipes and opened up shop around the corner, she could never duplicate what you and Cbabi have. You all are something that God and the ancestors have helped mold and design to do just this. Your essence is in your shop; that can't be copied."
So many people talk all around us, and it's not always positive. But hearing my friend say that tonight and getting a great! email from a recent wedding couple are reminders from God that what I do is good and cherished and whole and perfect for me. I don't have to be anyone else or do what someone else does or make my frosting like Bakery X (not a real place :) I just have to do me.
So, do you. When all else fails, it's so hard to pretend to be someone or something else. Sooner or later the party ends, the makeup comes off, and people either love the person standing in front of them or they don't. So you might as well be real and true and let those who love that real you join the fun.
trying to remember to be me,
Reine
8 comments:
Hang in there! I'm glad you're not packing up because my family and I are visiting St. Louis and my vegan kids (well, mostly vegan) are going to need cupcakes!
please don't give in. we absolutely adore your cafe and the people who work there. we come as often as we can, and we tell everyone we know to do the same. you are much appreciated!
thank you for the uplifting words. i came into sweetart when i was in stl last year...been thinking about it ever since! and now i'm moving to stl...into the shaw neighborhood. i can't wait to visit sweetart again!
We come to SweetArt while we were in St. Louis a couple of weeks ago. The kids had vegan chocolate chip cookies and I had a Maine Event (I think that's what it was called), which was the most delicious thing I've had in a LONG time, LOL. Even though we're not in St. Louis much, I'm glad I can come by there when I'm in town.
Yesterday here at the office, someone brought in a box of cupcakes to celebrate a co-workers birthday. I was offered one. I turned it down because someone with my waistline doesn't need a cupcake. But they wouldn't take no for an answer. I'm SOOOO glad they wouldn't. I had one. It was the most delicious thing I've ever had.
So today I was told where they got them from. I looked at your website. I connected with your sentiments and thoughts. Then I read this post and again connected.
Tomorrow I'm bringing my two children to SweetArt. I look forward to just being in your cafe as much as the products sold in it. You have a new customer!
Living a life of love and laughter,
Antonio
I forgot to add. You have a new customer for one reason:
Being you.
I always think nobody's readign this blog, and then I get the best comments and remember that there are truly beautiful people out there! Thank you Adrienne, Bluesmind, Rebecca, Pas2iche, and the people whose comments I couldn't read because they came out all jacked-up. Thanks to you, too. Here's to living the dream!
much love,
Reine
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