My name is Anna Louise Boudreaux.
Pictured below, I am exactly THIS happy to meet you.
Aptly named to represent Louisiana pride, but backwards. Everything I am is a little bit backwards.
I am happy to introduce myself as an over-reaching optimist. I am a lover of the underdog, pretty plates, and highlighting maps.
I mean to always be helpful, and sometimes that goes horribly awry. Laughter and dance are the most important things I know. They are the answers to most questions that matter.
And while I’d like to tell you that looking further into this subject [the subject of myself] will be easy, I think it’s pretty safe to assume that it won’t. I’ve had a interesting life so far - one that has often begged the question, “Why is she still smiling?”
In this practice, I am finding a great deal of goodness for myself already. I’m just learning to lean into this freedom from saying nothing. From being fine to letting the words come out of me so that I can make new space, refreshed space in my mind and heart.
Come on in, if you’d like to see what it looks like in my brain. It might be a little dark, and it’s definitely pretty weird in here. But all my hurricanes have rainbows swirling around within them. There is joy in all of my morbidity, and I find myself laughing loudly at my life often.
Join me, if you dare.
“Read in little pieces so you can chew over what you just learned.” Malcolm Gladwell
Because I care about you, I do suggest you read me in pieces and parts, for your own empathetic health and for any of your own self discovery that arrives because you read something about me that pulled out a little piece of you. I had to ingest it all in pieces, over the last 39 years. And I assure you, it all feels a little better with breaks.
Mental Health?
Travis Maynard is an artist of many ways and kinds. He’s co-creator of a beautiful little family that is full of artists, actually! He is funny, and deep, and talented, and creative, and one time he saved me from a burning building. He’s wouldn’t say it like that though, so I’m also going to call him humble here.
