Tag: getting back up
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Truth Hurts
I’ve taken the long way around getting to writing this post. A new job, long-awaited, started back in spring last year. My instincts told me not to take it, that it was too good to be true, but I mistook them for fear and shouted them down. I have calibrated my self-listening skills since and…
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52and40/7 Revise, Run, Roll Again
Dear Sixty Year Old Me, Saturday was that day of sliding down a long snake after a clear climb on a few recent ladders. You felt low afterwards. Low and relieved. Relieved because I wasn’t chosen to read out. Two hours after emailing the intro to my submission to the novel writing workshop I could see holes in it, after all. Huge holes. Leerdammer…
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