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Creating Space & Spaciousness

Creating Space & Spaciousness

and/or staying alive

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Hello Lovely Subscribers,

I’ve missed you all so much. I’ve missed the Substack community. Right when it was feeling like things were really getting going here the new semester started, my health took a swan dive, and I got overwhelmed with doctor’s visits, institutional toxicity, and book revisions.

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For weeks I’ve been telling myself that I’ll send a newsletter, and for weeks I haven’t sent a newsletter. For the past week especially I have been debating whether or not to pause paid subscriptions. I landed on yes. Yes, I am pausing paid subscriptions until May 30th.

How will this affect you? Well, most of you are free subscribers. If you’ve been wanting to access my archives but been held up by the paywall, this is your opportunity to access almost four years of archives for free.

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