Why She Writes

December 9 2023

This was a week where I was struggling emotionally. I had been invited to a party by a friend, and I really wanted to go, but I could not get out of my head enough to accept. My mind kept spiraling and I would find myself going to Sauna each night spiraling further. Trying to let go of the brain chatter only made it worse. This is when I decided to start taking my journal with me for my Sauna time. My brain always seems to have time to process when I am sitting in Sauna. And that’s how after years off from writing, I have finally picked up a pen again.

It’s a messy start. It’s repetitive. It’s annoying to me. But it’s a start. I love reading journal entries of my ancestors, seeing their words on the pages, in their own writing. Learning from their experiences. So I decided to try something. Spelling will suck, grammer will be bad, my writings might not make any sense. Its so imperfect. Gloriously imperfect. But I’m working on being ok with that.

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”

―John Steinbeck,East of Eden