🪷Not Lost in the Fray (My Holiday Wish)

What I'm thinking and learning lately

My personal wish during this holiday
is to not let my needs get lost in the fray

(needs I’ve had always; I just didn’t know—
life was just stressful, like driving in snow).

I need some alone time to rest and to write
(and to not stay up wrapping presents all night);

I need to be able to sit down and eat
without people rushing and pressuring me;

I need space to recover from social events,
which (now I know) I feel as very intense.

Yes, I want for my children a fun holiday—
but what they need more is a mom who’s okay.

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(I hope to write about all this in longer-form/prose at some point soon, for the purpose of self-care! We’ll see what happens.)

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Cinna’s expression here captures how I have long felt about holidays like Xmas.

Here, Penny and Papaya represent the holiday hassles. (I think Cinna climbed in that space because they were bothering him.)

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In the notebook

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