Hello!
Happy drive-around-and-look-at-holiday-lights season! My only real update: I’ve been drinking a lot of tea and my collarbone is slowly but surely healing (I can do arm circles now! Slowly, but still!).
Anyway, today’s newsletter is about feelings. What’s new??!?!
As holiday cheer filters in at the end of each year, so does my seasonal affective disorder. A friend once told me to think of the dark mornings and nights as a sign to recharge, to hibernate under blankets and in the soft glow of candles and lamps. In theory, this sounds lovely. In practice, I tend to feel lonely and wasteful and melancholy.
But there’s a certain comfort in the expected pattern of each year — with winter comes a layer of sadness I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to shake (even with antidepressants and therapy — rude!).
I don’t have a remedy for all of this, but after having a tough day last weekend, I decided to draw what these harder days feel like for me, and how they might look in hindsight — not beautiful, but maybe just a part of something bigger.
I hope your quilt, no matter what progress has been made on it, feels uniquely yours when you look back on it.
Now go wrap yourself in a real blanket and make some peppermint tea!
XO
Haley
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