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Essentials: Re-discovering the Daily Necessary
Does the current, um..situation have you rethinking your entire life? Maybe you’re just trying to focus on the essentials and get through this week. Either is ok. Photo by Elizabeth Explores on Unsplash I’m listening to the first few tracks of Sarah Siskind’s latest release, “Modern Appalachia” and already had the ugly cry. This is a good thing. There is something about the way she writes that triggers all the things. About 10 years ago, I drove 2 1/2 hours from Aspen back home with only “Falling Stars” on repeat in my car – after a really STEP IN SHIT eye-opening trip to visit someone I thought I had a relationship with. I…
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We’re Going the Distance
I notice while I’m walking on the trails near my house. I notice out on the open space just outside of town. We walk now with determined spacing, almost as if there is a natural repellant at work. Like ends of magnets pushing each other away. We have to distance. It’s becoming almost second nature Snap out of it! Holy cow. I took some time off from writing and most everything that is comforting, to wrap my brain around this crazy world that changed so quickly. Now, with some sanity oozing back in and my little home office properly set up – it’s time to rejoin the living. I hope…