A warm sunny day in September (Wednesday the 5th). Doors flung open letting the sunlight stream in on bare walls and a floor stripped to its original bare wood. Today, the keys to the cheese kingdom became mine. Impossible to imagine this moment a year ago, being in this place – any place. A space to fill with cheese and food and conversation and interest. Yet, crazy to think I’d never get here. Always lost somewhere in between the reality of daily work to achieve something, and dreaming about what it would be like to feel the realness of it.
Work has been going on for a long time. And, it is just beginning. I already feel a part of something organic, something larger than I can right now imagine – a neighborhood, a community. It’s nice to know that the sun shining on The Little Bleu Cheese Shop is the same sun so many craftsman are feeling and appreciating today, too.
No sleep tonight. Lists to make, imagining to be done, and deep appreciation to be given for all things good.
Originally posted September 10, 2012 on The Little Bleu Cheese Shop Web Site