Stepfanie, I’ve just discovered your essays… you’re brilliant. It’s like you’ve uncovered the thoughts in my head that I was struggling to understand. I look forward to what insights you will reveal to me next. And thank you.
When I look in the mirror these days, it's less "how did I get in here?" and more "how did I let this this happen?" (or, on a good day, "maybe i don't look *that* bad"). But a slight rephrasing of your original to "how did I get here?" leads to "what a long strange trip it's been. And a fun, fascinating, heartbreaking, terrible and wonderful one."
Not exactly where you were going but the whole self reflection & celebration bits are still there.
Now in the interest of both vanity and improving the self portrait (or inadvertently completing it!) gonna drag my woefully out of shape self out for an alternating run/walk/sprint trek through the desert as it tops 100 today (we're not neighbors or even same state but same climate) until I start hallucinating.
My attempts to leave a comment here keep vanishing. If it vanishes again, I give up, so leaving this meaningless bit that assuredly shall not vanish in an attempt to break the pattern and voila
Stepfanie, I’ve just discovered your essays… you’re brilliant. It’s like you’ve uncovered the thoughts in my head that I was struggling to understand. I look forward to what insights you will reveal to me next. And thank you.
Thank you for such a kind note, Carole. So glad you found your way here—welcome :)
What a lovely essay. Very thought provoking...
Tysm, Theresa. So glad it resonated :)
When I look in the mirror these days, it's less "how did I get in here?" and more "how did I let this this happen?" (or, on a good day, "maybe i don't look *that* bad"). But a slight rephrasing of your original to "how did I get here?" leads to "what a long strange trip it's been. And a fun, fascinating, heartbreaking, terrible and wonderful one."
Not exactly where you were going but the whole self reflection & celebration bits are still there.
Now in the interest of both vanity and improving the self portrait (or inadvertently completing it!) gonna drag my woefully out of shape self out for an alternating run/walk/sprint trek through the desert as it tops 100 today (we're not neighbors or even same state but same climate) until I start hallucinating.
My attempts to leave a comment here keep vanishing. If it vanishes again, I give up, so leaving this meaningless bit that assuredly shall not vanish in an attempt to break the pattern and voila
That was predictable! Now one last try at a real one