Hello faithful and most appreciated readers! This is part of a new format and series I’m trying out in the month of June, thanks to a conversation I had with an Instagram acquaintance, actually (what happens when social media works!). I’m reprising a project I started in 2020, writing monthly chapbooks based on a theme with one poem per day, to be used as an affirmation or mantra or inspiration as you walk through any given day. June’s theme is appreciation. Paid subscribers will receive five posts a week, M-F, consisting of a poem and small essay, and free subscribers will receive two posts a week, on Mondays and Fridays. Thanks for reading, subscribing, and following!
This picture of my daughter pretty much sums up the way I’ve been feeling lately.
Like, no thanks, not right now, hard pass on life.
Only not exactly.
Hard pass on life isn’t quite right. I want to be in life. And of life. And present and joyful and engaged, even with the hard stuff. What I don’t want is to be full of doubt and drowning in negative self-talk and having my inner voice obscured by a lot of opinions from other people, who, let’s give them all the benefit of the doubt, might be well-meaning but ultimately are getting in the way.
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