Here's what's been helpful for me that might be helpful for you: I've noticed that when I carve out time and space for creativity, I get a much needed healing reprieve from all of that external noise.

Partially because my Valentine this year is a Weimaraner dog named Cobe and partially because I know we can all use more love right now, I wrote a little something in my notes app.

You are enough.

Even when you didn't do more.

Even when there's more to do right now.

Yesterday, while driving around my hometown and crying to a sad song, I asked myself how I might choose to be thankful too.

Not in a way that bypasses or covers over the pain, but right up next to it.

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