BREAKING NEWS: My poetry is now available to read in Anschutz Medical Campus's 'The Human Touch' Volume 17 (online)!!!🔮🖋🌿🎉
They slipped this one under my radar! (Plus a brief reflection.)
So I’m a bit late with this announcement, but I am very pleased to report that The Human Touch’s 2024 edition (volume 17) is out and ready to be read! I had meant to be more on the ball for this but between leaving Target (switching from full time to on demand), taking time to just relax, and mentally prepping myself for the next big step in my career journey, this piece of personal news completely slipped my mind. While I wasn’t looking (I can’t say exactly when this happened), Anschutz Medical Campus’s literary journal FINALLY released their latest volume, in which two of my poems, “Look at me” and “The Mucha Woman” are featured alongside many other gorgeous works.
You can read/download it online HERE.
Reflection
Well, I’m not entirely sure what else to say about this, other than my journey as a writer is far from over. I’m incredibly proud to see my work included amongst so many other fantastic writers and artists, in a volume as stunning as this one. But I suppose it also feels a bit strange, since I haven’t been doing a lot of writing lately. It may be that my body and mind have been so wrapped up in a perpetual state of transition that I haven’t been able to still myself long enough to actually write about any of it. Or this could just be my excuse for being so lazy.
As per my last post on the subject of feeling overwhelmed, I think it is safe to say that the feeling has not gone away since then. If anything, I feel even more exhausted than I did when I was still working at Target full time. Why is that, I wonder? Perhaps I was keeping myself in a near-constant state of alertness then, and never fully allowed myself to decompress even on my off days. Now that I’m (mostly) done with retail and looking ahead to working as a student mentor again, I need to stop myself again. Put down my phone, music and even my books. Freeze myself in time. Close the blinds in my room so the moving light doesn’t distract me. Not think about all the tasks I want to finish, all the emails and books I still have to read, all the subjects I still want to write about. Let my soft body commiserate with my soft heart.
Hopefully, after all of this, I’ll find time and energy to finish what I’ve started. In the meantime, dear readers, I hope my current lack of output does not give the impression that I’m not immensely grateful to everyone who has followed me and subscribed to my newsletter in this rather long interim. I fully intend to keep creating, musing, sharing with you the things that inspire and nourish my soul. Until next time…
- C
