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Vellichor // Two // Alignment

Vellichor // Two // Alignment

Finding beauty, always

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Aug 17, 2021
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This week’s newsletter is a short one, as I’ve been all over the place in every capacity. I am managing multiple medical referrals and a possible new medical diagnosis, but hope to get things together as the week goes on.

There are still so many beautiful things, though, alongside the many terrible things. Lately I’ve been going on social media and feeling more and more like people are posting desperately and compulsively, hoping that some post will change the movement of the world. It all feels so awful, but I remind myself that the awfulness is what’s reported on, and that every story can be reframed. That doesn’t make the awfulness okay, but i…

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