Haley Wrote This is a reader-supported newsletter. If it has brightened your inbox, please consider supporting it by becoming a paid subscriber (you’ll get to read this email and so much more!) Well, it finally arrived. The post-book-and-wedding-and-cross-country-travel depression has settled in like a gray haze, thick and disorienting and unsettling.
I’m not shocked by this, given the circumstances. But I’m annoyed! It’s summer! The sun doesn’t set till 9 PM! I want to ride my bike and sit outside with a glass of orange wine and spread a blanket on the pebbly beach near my apartment. I want crispy skin and a raspberry popsicle and exposed shoulders. I want to feel the way the sky looks: bright and clear and full of possibility. But I’m really and truly too tired.
It helped when, during my most recent therapy session, my therapist said:
So I’ll rest. In the wise words of Annie, the sun will come out tomorrow!!!
And in the spirit of rest and reflection, here are my most recent sketchbook pages. ... Keep reading with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to Haley Wrote This to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives. A subscription gets you:
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petak, 21. lipnja 2024.
Sketchbook #8: Summer Depression
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