After Thanksgiving last year, I wrote this letter about meeting all the versions of me through this newsletter, and part of it touched on what my experience of Covid was like. I wrote about feeling benched by Covid, how at what should have been the prime of my career I had to basically sit it all out, and hit pause. This is nothing like Covid, the situation I’m in with the fire in LA, but at the very start of this year I felt super motivated, just buzzing with energy and potential and then every day since I’ve been thrown through a loop, and that electricity feels so far out of reach right now that it’s almost hard to remember what it was like. I’m overwhelmed, you’re probably overwhelmed.
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