Firefly Scout
Every week, I share a Field Note- an observation from everyday life that reveals something worth noticing about how we navigate change, uncertainty, and the human experience. If you're looking for a gentler, more thoughtful way to move forward with greater clarity and self-trust, I'd be honored to have you in the field.
A New Season Has Arrived: All You Bring to the Table ✨
FIREFLY SCOUT Something to Share AN INVITATION ✦ A NEW SEASON AT FIREFLY SCOUT All You Bring to the Table The season where we celebrate what we have to offer Hi Reader! There's a new season unfolding at Firefly Scout, and I'm excited to welcome you to All You Bring to the Table! As we move into a time of gathering, giving, receiving, and celebrating, I've been thinking about everything we bring with us into these moments. Not just the meals, gifts, traditions, and all the things we do for...
Field Note | Explore the Season's Undercurrents
FIREFLY SCOUT Field Notes Observations on being Human. Invitations to live differently. Notice ✦ From the Field Hi Reader! You may have already noticed the shift, that the terrain is changing… Moving from a season rooted in changes to one that focuses on celebration and coming together. In this season with so much focus on giving and sharing, there's the visible, literal version-food, gifts, traditions, effort. Yet I want us to get curious in the less visible version, the undercurrents about...
Field Note | Something I'm afraid to tell you
Build the Life That Supports What Lights You Up! DISCOVER SHOP HUMAN ORIENTATION FIELD NOTES I've done something basically 'impossible' and don't know how I feel about sharing it. And now you know... The rest of the story Hi Reader! I feel a little awkward sharing this and afraid that sharing it will make you think a certain way about me, or about yourself. And maybe backfire in the message I'm trying to share. But hiding it isn't right either... So here goes... Over 6 years ago I started a...
Field Note | 🫰 And just like that
Build the Life That Supports What Lights You Up! DISCOVER SHOP HUMAN ORIENTATION FIELD NOTES Feeling drained by change and don't know where to orient your actions? Support yourself in this season of change. Hi Reader! 🫰annnnd *snap* it's fall. With a turn of a page, the passing of a day, we are all shifting into fall vibes. My husband already ordered a PSL and I sipped down a chai latte, in the start of a season where our warmth starts to come from spice rather than the sun. Last week, I...
Field Note | Life feeling a bit 'crispy'?
Build the Life That Supports What Lights You Up! DISCOVER SHOP HUMAN ORIENTATION FIELD NOTES If you’re feeling a bit worn out in the season you are in, regain your bearings with the Orientation Compass, and download your personalized field guide. Hi Reader! Things have been feeling a bit... crispy here this week. A few weeks ago, I felt like we were in the true juiciness of summer, like the luxury of long, hot days felt like what frigid February dreams are made of. And now, life is looking...
Field Note | What uncertainty is asking of you
Build the Life That Supports What Lights You Up! DISCOVER SHOP HUMAN ORIENTATION FIELD NOTES If you’re navigating a decision, transition, idea, or next move that feels uncertain right now, you can also read/save/pin this Field Note. Hi Reader! There’s a particular kind of uncertainty I’ve been thinking about lately. Not the kind where you truly don’t know what to do. The kind where you might know, but... there are enough other voices, possibilities, pressures, and very convincing reasons to...
Field Note | Sometimes the Right Tool Isn't Another Tool
Build the Life That Supports What Lights You Up! DISCOVER SHOP GLOW MAP JOURNAL. Read this Field Note as a blog post Hi Reader! One of the things I love about spending time in the garden is that it rarely teaches me the lesson I expected to learn. This week, I walked outside with a simple spark of a plan. I wanted to cut a few flowers from the yard to bring inside, so I grabbed a pair of scissors and headed into the yard. Before I reached the flowers, I noticed my pansies needed to be...
Field Note | What the Black Raspberries Taught Me This Summer
Build the Life That Supports What Lights You Up! DISCOVER SHOP GLOW MAP JOURNAL. Read this as a Field Note post Hi Reader! One of my favorite things about summer is that it feels... juicy. Not just because it's hot enough that you're sweating in places you'd rather not. But because it's the season when things begin to ripen. Gardens start giving back after months of quiet tending. The tomatoes finally taste like tomatoes. Peaches drip down your chin and everything seems to carry a little more...
A book recommendation, a podcast shoutout, and 3 books on my summer reading stack
Build the Life That Supports What Lights You Up! DISCOVER SHOP GLOW MAP JOURNAL *newsletter contains affiliate links. Bookshop.org supports local bookstores and is having an Anti-Prime Sale. Get free standard shipping through June 26 and load up your TBR stack. Hi Reader! A friend recently mentioned me on her podcast because of a book recommendation I shared with her. I was nervous listening but delighted to hear she found herself thinking about the question the book explored. What struck me...
The Wheels on the Bus... All Fell Off
Build the Life That Supports What Lights You Up! DISCOVER SHOP GLOW MAP JOURNAL Hi Reader! Have you ever noticed how we spend months looking forward to summer... Only to arrive completely exhausted? We push ourselves to get through the school year.To finish the project.To hit the deadline.To make it to vacation. And then we finally cross the finish line with nothing left in the tank for the part we were actually looking forward to. I've been increasingly curious about why so many of us are...
Every week, I share a Field Note- an observation from everyday life that reveals something worth noticing about how we navigate change, uncertainty, and the human experience. If you're looking for a gentler, more thoughtful way to move forward with greater clarity and self-trust, I'd be honored to have you in the field.