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Martha's avatar

Really enjoyed this journey through Chicago and your psyche (complimentary). I thought line about your ex and Covid and loosing your mind and turning into a pillar of salt was beautiful albeit self deprecating. The wording pillar of salt made me smile - idk why lol

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Raine's avatar

winter is a strange season, and you've evoked it here beautifully.

i used to get really upset whenever the time change would happen, and i suddenly had no daylight with which to do things after work. a surprisingly strong sense of despair would well up in me during the evenings. then, a few winters ago, i started to think of myself as a small mammal in my burrow. i gave myself 1 (sometimes 2) evenings a week where i would go to my room, turn my phone off, and just burrow. whatever that happened to look like.

i wasn't needed anywhere else, had absolutely nothing i needed to do... and the thing that had felt so upsetting before ("i have nothing to do") now feels delicious, like it did when i was a kid.

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