Oh, the title!
Isn’t it great? I’m quite enamored of it. I got it from a Dar Williams song “The Blessings,” a song about appreciating the good things, tiny as they may be, the blessings, that come with getting your heart broken. To me, it’s a song about the beauty that can come from painful changes, something that resonates a lot in my life.
The actual line from the song is “They gave me sticks and rocks and stars and all that I could hold/ I had the blessings” but when I wrote out various formats of sticksandrocksandstars.com, sticks&rocks&stars.com, sticksrocksstars.com, etc. I kept seeing “rock star” and that’s really not what my site is about! So “Sticks and Stars” it is. Besides, that’s a lovely image, the sharp earthiness of sticks and the dreams of stars. We’re all poetic and shit over here.