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Five things that are making me happy right now

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…