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A life more analog
Is a pile of old journals worth anything that matters? Yeah, it is.
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Love, grief, and tears
On showing care in whatever ways we can
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What if you aren't any good at it?
In praise of doing it anyway (and of inflatable frogs & unicorns)
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Wave me on my way
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Good grief
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Running on ice with knives
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Maybe read it as if it were a poem
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Let's go small together
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Finally, in a real way, warts and all
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What feeds us
Of fury, Furies, and force
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When the right plant in the right place isn't
(Not really about plants. But you knew that.)
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Letting the salty flood wash over me
And finding a way to a better kind of hard
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Getting by with a little help from my friends
Life feels really weird right now, but also really normal, which is part of why it feels really weird.
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Maybe read it as if it were a poem
When you practice "this is about/this is really about" on the day of a school shooting
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What kind of abundance do you want?
A small creative life won't bring you fame or fortune, but there are plenty of other things to be had from not going big
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No such thing as bad weather?
I want to thrive not as an act of resistance, but simply because I am 60 years old, and I don’t want to give away what’s left of my life waiting for…
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Finally, in a real way, warts and all
Seeing what it really looks like to make space for creative work while in the midst of grief and injury
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Good grief
A pep talk of sorts for those of us who are fresh out of pep
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