Team Sanow

What's a Sanow?

This blog exists for us to tell our story as a family.  I am going to be a father any day, any minute now, and creating a blog seemed like the appropriate response for bringing a little girl into this world.  I have found that I personally need a conduit to outlet all my ideas somewhere because heaven knows my wife's ears get worn out!

As I write, my wife sits on the other side of our sectional couch.  HGTV's Fixer Upper is on, and as we watch Chip make his jokes and Joanna make her plans as they make other peoples dreams come to life while their own come to fruition along the way; I think we can't help but  be inspired at our very core.

I'd like to think that's what a Sanow is: a dreamer.  I mean, it's either that or a funky German name I have no real trace towards.  I'd like to think that this is a chance to share thoughts, poetry, goals, advice and create conversation and community.  I'd like to think my wife and I will both have a voice, as we dream, as we hope, as we think of countries we'd like to live in and things we want to start and the type of people we want to be.

Why not bring our daughter into an adventure?  Why settle for being a boring man and letting my child have all the dreams?  Why not resurrect my own sense of imagination?  I'd like to think that I will be the best father I can possibly be if my heart is alive.  I will admit, that writing has grown to be one of those dreams.  Writing for me is what music or art is for another.  I'd like to think that I can paint, sing, and move a person by connecting with written words that move and touch the soul.  I'd like to think your heart and mine can connect as if we are sharing coffee and having a conversation, and that this will be that platform.

So here is to being a Sanow.  Or whatever crazy weird last name you have.  Here's to having a  dream.  Here's to sharing dreams, not keeping them exclusively our own.  Here's a shout out to my wife, my daughter; the two beautiful girls that have my heart.  To Zuri, I haven't met you yet.  Already you have changed my life for the better.  You have my heart sweet daughter of mine.

In order for that heart to be in the best shape it can be, I'm going to go for it, by risking and failing and getting back up as I try to tell a story along the way.