I didn’t intend this newsletter to be so heavy! I guess I’ve just had a lot of bottlenecked emotions in my head for the last year — and once I started sharing those emotions, it turned into a firehose of angst.
I’m using the past tense here as if I’m over it, but the truth is last weekend I typed another several hundred overwrought words and intended to post them, but then I realized I was just stressing myself out.
I am not someone who thinks that the only way to have gravitas is to be a total bummer, and I’ve been thinking a lot about why Jennifer Tatroe stopped writing 750 words first thing in the morning every day (and what she does instead).1 In that entry, she talked about how focusing on the things causing her the most anxiety just seemed to cement the hold these worries had on her.
I am sure I will write more soon about challenges we’re having, but I don’t want that to be all that I do. So as a bit of a reset button, I’m just going to tell you five things that are making me ha…
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