The essay in me, the one I am screaming with…well, I sat down to write it and realized I wrote it last Rosh Chodesh. I’m the kind of activated where I keep talking myself down from picking unhelpful fights on WhatsApp (with only medium success) and can’t focus for more than about a minute at a stretch. This essay took days to sit down and start, hours to start actually writing after I wrote “Rosh Chodesh Elul” at the top of the document, and even as I work on this paragraph I am clicking away to check my email and texts.
I needed this when I finally got to checking my email today 💜