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A Tendency to Catastrophize

By NataliePosted on August 21, 2019
  • Happiness

We are going through a lot of change right now in my workplace. I’ve seen people process this change with a range of reactions: speculation, […]

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Writing Update: The Fervor

By NataliePosted on August 20, 2019
  • Writing

I send a few pictures to my friends at the tail-end of my writing session. They are selfies captioned with expressions of my anxiety at […]

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Against All Odds

By NataliePosted on August 19, 2019
  • Happiness

“It was such a throwaway sound now, that laugh. An easy one that said it could be spent so easily because there were more where that one came from. The wound was healing against all odds; the victim would make it after all.”

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Don’t outrun the wind

By NataliePosted on August 18, 2019
  • Poetry

It clicks and pounds and it comes out stunted Stunted, stunted Then too much, too fast, at once Slow down I can barely capture you […]

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It Only Takes A Day

By NataliePosted on August 17, 2019January 1, 2020
  • Habits & Goals
  • Happiness

Sometimes a reset takes years. It takes months of the same cycle and breaking it and syncing in again and small steps up and up […]

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The Procrastination Advantage

By NataliePosted on August 16, 2019January 1, 2020
  • Habits & Goals
  • Happiness

There’s a spectrum of preparedness and procrastination where I fall somewhere in the middle . . . okay, leaning a little towards the latter. I […]

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An Impulse Decision

By NataliePosted on August 15, 2019
  • Happiness

I made an impulse decision yesterday. I’m going to blame rereading The Raven Cycle. Or maybe it was just that I looked out at the […]

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Chop Wood

By NataliePosted on August 14, 2019January 1, 2020
  • Habits & Goals
  • Happiness

I pulled a card yesterday from the Wisdom of the Oracle deck, divination cards gifted to me from my friend Jenna for my last birthday. […]

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Writing Update: Some Math

By NataliePosted on August 13, 2019
  • Writing

As I start putting big writing blocks on my calendar over the next couple of weekends, and a longer one on weeknights, I feel both […]

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That Book Advice Again

By NataliePosted on August 12, 2019
  • Books
  • Happiness

I wrote earlier this year about Gretchen Rubin’s advice: stop reading bad books. When a book doesn’t capture you, it slows all your reading down. […]

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