You know what’s kinda funny? Originally, Your Burning Desire wasn’t a postcard business at all. Instead, it was a life coaching business that I was trying to get off the ground by writing a book called The 36 Ways to Your Burning Desire: A Manual for Getting What You Want. I used to make these little YouTube videos about each one of the chapters where I would introduce myself by saying, my name is Emily, and MY Burning Desire is to start a successful coaching practice where I help people get what they want! Because that was the whole premise behind the coaching program: you had to choose a Burning Desire (some goal you really wanted) that you would focus on and pursue. But the thing about choosing a Burning Desire was that you have to allow it to evolve, to change and grow and be willing to let it lead you places you might not have originally expected it to go — as long as where it’s going was even more enjoyable than where you started out. And that’s exactly what happened with me, too. Originally, I really did want to start a coaching business. But then I got the idea that I was going to sell the coaching book and find clients by getting a booth at a local farmers’ market. And then it occurred to me that if I was going to take up space at a farmers’ market, I better have a little crafty knickknack to sell, too, that would represent the themes in the coaching program. So that’s how the postcards came about. And then once I started making postcards, it was off to the races — I was enjoying myself so much, I forgot all about the coaching. So here we are at the market this summer, with no coaching program at all — just these crazy little postcards. But that’s not even the end of the story, or of my Burning Desire. All the text I ended up writing to make the postcards, and all these little short stories I’m writing as the backstories for the postcards, have served as a powerful reminder to me about the Burning Desire I’ve actually been after, all this time, the entire time, and probably, my entire life, too. And that, of course, is love. True Love. ❤️‍🔥— Y.B.D.