Alisha Sommer | Essentials for Living

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Ten.One Thousand, Two Hundred & Sixty-Two

  1. Waiting for the light.

  2. Soup for breakfast. A little slice of Italian batard with salted butter. I’m goin to learn how to make baguettes this break. I think.

  3. We need a plan.

  4. Curled up in the chair watching the fog and the light, finishing the last few pages of “The Awakening.”

  5. We work together to rearrange his room so that his monitor doesn’t get glare when he’s gaming. I am jealous of all the light.

  6. We lost the Pokemon cards.

  7. I feel my anxiety shoot up. I am hot with anxiety and anger. Which is always what happens when I go against my nature.

  8. I come to the Zoom for the laughs and because I enjoy getting to know my aunts and uncles as an adult. Next week I’ll start adding to the conversation.

  9. Dog, Prairie Dog, Whale, Jaguar, Snake, Lynx, Otter, Beaver, Dragonfly.

  10. “Your success going forward rests on you changing the way that you think about and speak to yourself. You’ve come too far to lose your place in your future because of a crippling refusal to change your mind, words. Daughter, be free of fear…”