It was nice just now to get up and give nuts and seeds to the birds and chipmunks and smell the plants and see that this is a good day, like other days have been and will be.

“If it feels relentless and endless, you are not alone . . . and everything will change. If it isn’t changing fast enough, I wish I could grant you the patience to wait for the moment you look back and sayit was hardbut I survivedand I refusedto be stored in a blackplastic sack and placedin thecontainerprovided.”—Amanda Palmerhttps://www.patreon.com/posts/82628712