Tag: survival
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Liminal
In the summer, the graves of indigenous children were discovered at residential schools all over Canada. I felt angry, shaken, small, and helpless. I leaned into the fragile slowness of living through the pandemic, allowing myself grace. I hugged the friends I hadn’t seen in months. I cried in my car on the way home…
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Sustainability
This fall, it’s been hard to stop habits I know are bad for me, even after telling myself I will. I buy flowers and light scented candles for my kitchen, put on new clothes, but the mistakes I make and doubts I have repeat themselves. I’m looping the same anxieties in my head as last…
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Navigation
This winter, living has felt heavy and lonely. The rain strikes me as it did a year ago, when I was unemployed, the feelings even more open than they were then. The year passed has not been quite so forgiving in recent months. The world is very large, the world is above my pay grade,…
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Fine Tuning
Happy New Year! Real quick: If you like what I do and say, and you want to support a starving writer living in one of the most expensive cities in North America in a tangible way, you can buy me a coffee for just $3. Thanks! (Not all “coffee” funds are spent on actual coffee. Most…
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