I stopped updating this newsletter a week before the U.S. Election Day, and that is not a coincidence. Aside from feeling simultaneously overwhelmed and emotionally void, I knew that even if I tried I would not be able to keep my updates from being anything more than one long primal scream.
But now that one election is in the past, and while my country has a LOT of work to do (please support Fair Fight to help with the elections in Georgia and elsewhere!) we’ve turned an important corner away from fascism and theocracy. I feel recovered enough to get back on track with things that are important to me.
And what IS important to me, anyway? I’ve spent most of 2019 and 2020 in a fog of self-doubt, helped along this year by the pandemic forcing my world to narrow down to the eye of a needle. Both my dog and I gained weight, I did not launch my business like I wanted to, and I did not write anywhere near as much as I planned.
What gives?
More on that later, but the important thing for me to acknowledge is that I really enjoy writing Keely’s Way — I love trying to describe my life and my world, I love the daily schedule of it, and I love challenged myself to write better as well as more consistently.
For those who have followed along with patience and love and support: thank you. Here’s a shot of Keely I took this morning:
She’s happy and (too) well fed, and while she does have a tooth that needs to be extracted she’s does not seem to be in pain. More adventures with Keely tomorrow!