“Though we tremble before uncertain futures may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength may we dance in the face of our fears.”
Gloria Anzaldua is quoted as saying, “Though we tremble before uncertain futures may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength may we dance in the face of our fears.” If nothing else, the last five and a half years have certainly been a practice in learning to do that: meeting all sorts of adversity with strength and dancing in the face of so many fears it seems like that’s all I’ve been doing.
I chose this blog title back in 2019 and meant to start writing regularly again, something I hadn’t done since friendagedon back in 2016. (Yes, that does mean that most of the posts on this page are over 5 years old. Yikes.) But my depression was too much for me and writing took more out of me than I can express. For a short while when things were good in 2019 (thank you, abilify!), I did write, but things got complicated real quick and I moved home, dad died, a global pandemic began, and I only worked on my dissertation and nothing else.
Things have changed, though. I’m doing spectacularly well (thanks, again, abilify! And therapy! And just having had time to heal…) and I want to start writing again. And frankly, I just have so much to say.
So, I’m going to continue this practice of dancing in the face of fear and meeting adversity with strength and this time I’m writing about all of it.