Greetings everyone!
I woke up late the other day, and as I looked through my window, I was mesmerized by the bright orange and red leaves of the big sugar maple tree outside my bedroom. As fall swept through the city, I observed this tree every day, amazed by its reluctance to change, being one of the few in the surrounding gardens that had not yet succumbed to the inevitable changes of autumn. It still bore green leaves but overnight, it transformed.
Back home, in the tropics of Honduras, we only have two seasons: a wet winter and a dry summer, which is why I find autumn breathtaking. It signals change, and does it in a magical way, covering places with a warm palette of bright colors.
Five years ago, I fulfilled one of my dreams: I became a Pastry Chef. Over two years ago, I made the bold choice to set that dream aside. Not forever, never forever, but I needed to step aside for a while to let my passion for it grow because I had started to hate it. And somewhere down the line, I realized I was piecing together a puzzle unconsciously. Ever since I was a child, I’ve wanted to own a bookshop, one that would sell my favorite books and one day, even my own book, and inside the bookshop, I would have a bakery. It was a child’s dream really, but funnily enough, I never noticed how I was slowly inching towards making that dream come true.
I am now on the end of my second-to-last semester of my M.F.A., working on a novel and thinking about bringing back to life a food blog that I had and perhaps even work on a baking book.
Today is my last day as an intern at Beaufort Books and as saddened I am to be leaving, I am so grateful and happy to have been given the opportunity and an amazing internship experience.
Interning at Beaufort Books has pushed me to change my leaves and drop them, to allow the changes that I’ve been pushing back to happen. This was my first venture in the publishing world, one that opened my eyes to its wondrous workings, and the way that things have happened in my life, I am sure that this is only the beginning.
To everyone here at Beaufort Books,
Thank you!
-Sir Arthur Conan Beauyle
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” -Seneca