I'm with your kiddo on ICE CREAM 🍦 and cozy LL Bean fleeces 🧣 (<-- best I could do with the emojis provided; see! I'm learning the lesson!)
I'm with you on heaviness and stress and and and. My PCP, who I otherwise like fine enough, made a passing comment about lifestyle strategies when I told her I bumped up my SSRI dose. I could've laughed directly in her face, as though we can out-self-care fascism. But I'm really grateful you shared this essay as a reminder to myself that, for the most part, I really am working with what I've got, including the SSRI, and that's not nothing. 🫡
I love the word mellage, which I do believe I'll start using rather than collage. Clever girl, she is. I thought both were beautiful and earned their rightful place in the refrigerator. I hope you leave them there for a good while to look at and remember this post. I have no construction paper but will hit the dollar store for said item. Maybe even a large piece of poster board. I am a huge fan of corkboards which can be switched out, although I never have switched the originals, because they were from a place in time that spoke to me and still do.
I got sidetracked reading Grays wonderful writings and really enjoyed the Bitter Southerner article. Makes me want to reclaim myself and go back to living rural with my cows and chickens. Digressing as usual. These are a beautiful reminder to make do with what you have and no more, no less. No need for the bucket.
Take good care of yourself and I do hope you're feeling better. Maybe try papaya, good for the tummy. I've been eating it every day. Listen to your body, if it says bananas and toast, do that. I'm still eating chicken soup every single night. Vision board it is! Onward to the mellage challenge! Thank you for this. It's perfect and just what this girl needed.
I absolutely eat up when kids say the wrong word but it suddenly makes it right
100%!!
I'm with your kiddo on ICE CREAM 🍦 and cozy LL Bean fleeces 🧣 (<-- best I could do with the emojis provided; see! I'm learning the lesson!)
I'm with you on heaviness and stress and and and. My PCP, who I otherwise like fine enough, made a passing comment about lifestyle strategies when I told her I bumped up my SSRI dose. I could've laughed directly in her face, as though we can out-self-care fascism. But I'm really grateful you shared this essay as a reminder to myself that, for the most part, I really am working with what I've got, including the SSRI, and that's not nothing. 🫡
Definitely not nothing! You are working with all the tools you have, including a limited emoji selection! 😂
I love the word mellage, which I do believe I'll start using rather than collage. Clever girl, she is. I thought both were beautiful and earned their rightful place in the refrigerator. I hope you leave them there for a good while to look at and remember this post. I have no construction paper but will hit the dollar store for said item. Maybe even a large piece of poster board. I am a huge fan of corkboards which can be switched out, although I never have switched the originals, because they were from a place in time that spoke to me and still do.
I got sidetracked reading Grays wonderful writings and really enjoyed the Bitter Southerner article. Makes me want to reclaim myself and go back to living rural with my cows and chickens. Digressing as usual. These are a beautiful reminder to make do with what you have and no more, no less. No need for the bucket.
Take good care of yourself and I do hope you're feeling better. Maybe try papaya, good for the tummy. I've been eating it every day. Listen to your body, if it says bananas and toast, do that. I'm still eating chicken soup every single night. Vision board it is! Onward to the mellage challenge! Thank you for this. It's perfect and just what this girl needed.
Isn't Gray an incredible writer? I'm glad you visited her newsletter! And please report back if you made a mellage! I'd love to hear about it. xo
I always try to remind myself to start where I am with what I have, and this is a lovely reminder of that.
I'm so glad to hear that!!
I will never correct her! Her words are perfect and cute and I love her. Also love that the next day we DID in fact get ice cream. Dreams manifested.
Vision boarding works!!