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Doodles and Dawdles

In the nine or so months since I’ve last shared anything, plenty has changed in my life; new work places, new moves, more non-contact with harmful people, dealing with new and old traumas. But there’s no need to linger on those things right now. I’m in a better mental and physical place than I was when I exited a micromanaging and toxic environment. Part of that was thanks to the cows, but another discovery helped get me through unemployment and job searches, and it’s something I never thought I’d get any attention doing.

Turns out, with some practice and openness, anybody can be an artist somehow. Even me.

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life

“The best part? The cows.”

Three weeks. That’s the shortest amount of time I’ve ever been unemployed. The day I was let go from my most recent job, I was contacted by a temp agency within a few hours of getting home. I guess I could argue I was “unemployed” for even less time.

While I was working my previous job however, I knew from the first day on the job that something was amiss. A week or two in, and I was aware I should be looking for something else. And while I searched, that left me with one thing to look forward to every day I commuted to work.

And that was the cows.

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heavy life

Beginning Again

“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.”
Semisonic, “Closing Time”, 1998
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big questions life writing

Laid Off

It’s been too long since I wrote something in here last, but I’ve had a bit of a trying few months – both good, in that tomorrow is my one-year anniversary with a lovely young woman I adore, some more personal issues, actively working hard to have stories worth publishing or requesting representation for, and good old-fashioned procrastination. But never fear, today I’m posting something I wrote in the aftermath of a fateful Monday morning, when I received bad news in public.

That’s always a good time, ain’t it?

You’ve probably guessed what it is from the title of this post, but I wanted to put some thoughts together after it occurred – crystalize what’s going on in my head, how I’m feeling about it, what I’ll be working to do going forward. This one isn’t a “good” post, but it is a reflective post, and one the likes of which I’ve (sadly) written of before.

Should you choose to, thanks for reading, friends.

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