Speak Friend and Enter

These past weeks have been a lot. As I wrote about last week, one thing that has gotten me through whatever this is, has been what you are seeing right now: writing down my thoughts as a way of getting my mental cupboard tidied up, in order to be able to move forward while utilising the hopefully-organised-but-not-pedantically-so tools I store in said cupboard, that I can now actually find. It's working thus far, but while a few weeks back I had mentioned my journalistic approach to journaling, I think it's important to discuss the conversations that are at the heart of this endeavour. It seems that when you are in the midst of something pivotal and troubling, people come quickly out of the woodwork to express support, offer an ear to fill with one's woes, and do their best at sorting through their own cupboard to find the advice they've learned that they wished they'd had when they found themselves in situations like you are in. Being in this moment right now has generated some of…