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How I want to relate to joy, Take 2

How I want to relate to joy, Take 2

Jun 07, 2023
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Oh Lord, I just wrote a whole long thing and then I think I accidentally deleted it and sent an empty and deceptively Zen-like post! So I’m trying again.

OK, so the second installment of the Proust pep talk is coming soon, but in the meantime I just got to a writing residency on the Costa Brava and had an instructive experience I wanted to share with y…

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