🙌🏾 Register for the next Sober from Bullshit Recovery Club: Storytelling Edition here. May 5th! Next week!
Good people of the slow motion sober community: The newsletter is taking a break for the month of May.
I am in the process of finding a new apartment. This process is exciting, and a total thrill, and something that up until very very recently would not have been even up for consideration. And, the process is turning my brain into a sieve. I observe myself dancing around two sides of the same coin: elation, readiness, and joy on one side, utter fear and doubt and anxiety on the other (why do all these emotions have to feel so damn similar!?). The mix of all this is working something over on my subconscious that is as yet to be revealed, and what I know is that I show up to write and my brain is a sieve.
So instead of grinding, I’m listening.
I’ll be back in June, with some surprises and a newsletter identity shift. I will send out probably one or two brief check ins to let you know about writing workshops and recovery club.
I’m here, I’m not going anywhere. I am so grateful for what we are creating here, for your eyes and your hearts and your wisdom and your honesty and your joy, and being with you in this way is one of my great gifts, and Tater and I can’t wait to report back from our very own place.
Send me the good vibes, if you will!
All my love, tuya,
dani xxoo
⛓ Linkos del día:
🎧 A remarkable sound meditation:
💔 RIP DMX: “Oftentimes, all an addict has in their fight against addiction is their own resiliency. That test of wills has made it seem like DMX has lived at least 100 lifetimes with everything he endured, making the news of his death all the more sobering.”
✍🏽 High School Poetry in the Age of Zoom: “This is what I wanted all along, for poetry to become their tool, their antidote for the times. And here I was, once again floored by their maturity, grace, and resilience. Floored by their ability to find healthy ways to cope with uncertainty.”
🏂 Another day, another story about bonehead Bay-Area-ites.
🙏🏽 Maybe one day I’ll have words for the effect reading this had on me: “A human being who was here just three days ago is no longer here because she was murdered by the state. I mean, I am not naïve, but I feel the older I get, the more it baffles my mind that a not small part of our country has accepted this as part of some kind of social contract. That occasionally, a person going about the ordinary course of their life will just be killed by the state. Like. What?”
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Here's to finding the perfect nest! <3
I'll miss you! Sending good vibes for the perfect spot to call home.
Happy Hunting, Love!
Yay! Here’s to taking breaks and to you and Tater finding your space.