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Oct 2, 2022Liked by Devin Kelly

So much of this post resonates. I seem to find the poignant and bittersweet everywhere I look. The sentence that begins, "It is a generous act to admit your despair..." struck me like a gong. The burdens we are asked to carry, meanwhile functioning as if all was well. And yet I find this kind of lostness in almost every sensitive, self-honest person I meet. It is a sad comfort to bond by. We join empty hands. We speak of the birds as an anchor to something that transcends. Thank you for the gift of your beautiful soul-writing and the poetry you bring close into the light where we can recognize ourselves.

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"When we are empty we are often asked to be full" this sentence really got to me and summarises for me the past few years when all of our limits were breached and was still an expectation to produce. There is such a lovely elevation of humanity and the ordinary here.

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