I love visiting the saltwater-crusted corners of your mountain life, and your return to the ocean felt beautiful, too. I could have underlined and dog-eared so many passages from this—I was going to refrain from quoting you back to you but I haven’t the strength. I know these feelings by name: “writing travel notes to remember until my hand ached and still having so much more to say… It was a deep nostalgia for my California youth and a present longing for a life I cannot yet see the shape of” — just two of too many sentences naming parts of this experience in a way I consider to be your contribution to the betterment of humanity. Thank you for that. And congratulations on the steps toward releasing your memoir, the world will be a better place for it, and I couldn’t be more happy for you 💙
Aw Holly. Thank you! This made me tear up. I’m forever questioning my contribution to the world, like what am I even saying? Why do people read this? What is my purpose? And I never come up with the answer. I just keep writing in hopes it helps someone feel seen and understand, a little less alone in their experience. I keep writing to process and to celebrate and to grieve and I don’t know maybe one day it will mean something. Thank you for reading and always being so kind with your words.
Love seeing all of this for you Jessy 🤗. That show with Gregory sounds amazing!! Can’t wait to hear more about your trip and start reading your memoir!
Thank you, Rebecca! It feels good to start the year off this way esp with everything else feeling so heavy. I’m fully sinking into the good when it comes.
I love visiting the saltwater-crusted corners of your mountain life, and your return to the ocean felt beautiful, too. I could have underlined and dog-eared so many passages from this—I was going to refrain from quoting you back to you but I haven’t the strength. I know these feelings by name: “writing travel notes to remember until my hand ached and still having so much more to say… It was a deep nostalgia for my California youth and a present longing for a life I cannot yet see the shape of” — just two of too many sentences naming parts of this experience in a way I consider to be your contribution to the betterment of humanity. Thank you for that. And congratulations on the steps toward releasing your memoir, the world will be a better place for it, and I couldn’t be more happy for you 💙
Aw Holly. Thank you! This made me tear up. I’m forever questioning my contribution to the world, like what am I even saying? Why do people read this? What is my purpose? And I never come up with the answer. I just keep writing in hopes it helps someone feel seen and understand, a little less alone in their experience. I keep writing to process and to celebrate and to grieve and I don’t know maybe one day it will mean something. Thank you for reading and always being so kind with your words.
Love seeing all of this for you Jessy 🤗. That show with Gregory sounds amazing!! Can’t wait to hear more about your trip and start reading your memoir!
Thank you, Rebecca! It feels good to start the year off this way esp with everything else feeling so heavy. I’m fully sinking into the good when it comes.
Yes. We have to.
Every word of this is molasses and chili flake, a Blues song, a tumbleweed.
Aw, thank you for being a key part in making it so I could enjoy the show and not worry about my babies. You’re such a beautiful and generous soul.
You continue to amaze with your words … and what an incredible way to share your memoir, Dickens style serialized ❣️
Aw, thank you, Erin. That means a lot coming from you. Are you in LA currently? Are you doing okay?