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I had a feeling you needed this peaceful beauty in your life today. I know I did…
The Loneliness No One Talks About
No one warns you about the loneliness that comes with growing.
The silence when old friendships stop fitting, but new ones haven’t formed.
The ache of outgrowing places, conversations, even versions of yourself.
Growth is beautiful, but it can also be isolating.
Keep growing anyway. You’ll find your kindred spirits.
Last Feb I casually posted this neck stretch on Instagram (that I thought everyone knew 🤷♀️) and it blew up in a way I couldn’t imagine. It’s now been viewed over 8 million times 🫣😬🤣 and has brought so many wonderful people into my world.
So give it a go, it’s a pretty lovely stretch. (Though it’s not actually magic, it’s just an up…
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I have one subscriber who reads a single chapter of my book every week, than emails me every Sunday morning with his feedback.
He's 75, and has no idea how to use the Substack app. He will never see this note.
It makes my entire week when I get his email. He is a wonderful soul, funny and lovely, and he keeps me moving forward.
How do I even repay that?
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this and never watching an instagram reel again
1) I wonder how many students have died from these increased measles “outbreaks”? I’ll tell you: negligible at best. People saw measles as a kids’ disease of mostly inconvenience, like chicken pox. A number of these vaccines are purely for convenience, and some aren’t even vaccines at all, like the Vitamin K shot. We need to have the maturity in this discussion to recognize that not all diseases, and not all vaccines, are the same.
2) the irony that a Catholic school won’t accept a state’s approved religious exemption
3) I’m so exhausted with overtures to “Catholic Social Teaching™️” which is just very simple unrigorous theology that is little more than Post-War Western Liberalism with a Catholic veneer, and often at odds with the entire Catholic Intellectual Tradition up until the 20th Century. 90% of the time, it’s utter bunk.