🪩 January Salon • 1.26 12PM EST
Details & Zoom link for Friday's Inaugural On Purpose Salon
Hey y’all,
I hope you’ve had a great month so far — how did the reflecting go?
Mine was a rollercoaster — I ended up doing it twice because the first round knocked the wind out of me. There was so much joy, but man — there was a lot of anxiety too.
Parenting was shooting rapids — guiding Oz from his last days of pre-school to his first days of kindergarten surprised me both in the number of moments when we found ourselves touching the sacred and in the many others when we found ourselves overcome by the waves.
Some other things I wasn’t expecting…
How much happier I am when I have more time than when I have more money.
How completely blind I am to the moment when my enthusiasm for doing everything all at once is about to throw me headfirst over the handlebars.
How I can’t make anything when I can hear my husband and my son downstairs, talking without me. Both for the loneliness and for the want of solitude.
How writing all the time would steadily lead me back to reading real books again. Ho…
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