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Day 1

In your own space, talk about your Happy Place - the things that give you joy, calms you or keeps you sane. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


I do meditations on what I feel gratitude for that remind me that I and the things I have built are strong and can weather political storms and personal crises. It brings me a ground-into-the-bone deep satisfaction that I can take the bullshit thrown at me by a world full of uncertainty and still find ways to float, moments to surf on the heaving waves of chaos.

I have smells to smell and silky things to wear and feel against my skin. I have the kind of self care things that are a last resort for days when I cant with anything anymore, but I also have a community of friends and like-minded kinfolk here and on Slack to lean on and ask for advice before I ever start to wobble mentally. We built that together. People wanted me to be part of the network that keeps them steady, and I get to help them where I can. It's awesome to feel this connected. I never thought I could do this or have this, always so sure that I would fuck it up.

And I have. But people corrected me, and I apologized, and then we worked to fix the problems causing people to fuck up that way. And now we have this ... I don't even know what to call it. A tribe? A village? A family? This network of people all trying to make each other succeed. I haven't had anything like it before.

But I am really glad I got the chance to be this person with all of you.
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