One a Day / 08.09.26-10.09.26
It was a great idea while it lasted...
It's time to change the direction of this space for a while, starting with a daily poem. The warmup has served me well over the last few years, and with some major changes on the way here in October, it is time to practice what I keep preaching. This gives space for new ideas to flourish and old wood to be quietly cut away. We'll be doing this therefore until the 30th, by which time everything happening in the background will be ready for you. Thanks for reading.
Okay, this is not poetry.
Tuesday was a very bad day for my mental health and for the first time in quite a few months, I did not write. As today is World Suicide Awareness Day, it occurs to me that honestly about this is important, and that I'm still navigating a piece of my life that is going to have an impact on a lot of other stuff. I took advice on Tuesday: do nothing strenuous. Just exist and attempt to relax.
Wednesday was probably worse, and it culminated in me going to a Yoga class and silently crying for 45 minutes. As it turns out, this was in fact helpful. There are no real emotional issues right now that are causing me direct pain. If anything, things are looking pretty good professionally on multiple fronts. What this is, I now realise, is me learning to rethink how I deal with emotional overstimulation.
Today, I've had no caffeine, and suddenly feel a deal better for it. I've also gone back to working on some personal work that directly appertains to my issue and written something that has helped a great deal, but is not for sharing, for reasons which should be obvious from the above. We will see if a warmup exists tomorrow.
I suspect, from how things now feel, a corner has been turned.
