Author: DangitDaya
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Who Needs Growth
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about growth. About whether people are actually required to keep doing it forever. Learning. Healing. Becoming better versions of…
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Here I am – Welcome back
Here I am, sitting on my couch in a quiet house. For the first time in what feels like weeks, maybe months, I am by…
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Calm after the storm. No dog died.
Tax season is over. I feel like I should say that with more triumph, more clarity, more certainty that I did everything right—but the truth…
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Surviving Tax Season When You Feel Like a Worm in the Dirt
Have you ever made a decision that felt so uniquely stupid, so specifically yours, that you were certain no one else in the history of…
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A Gentle Warning, and a Heavy Heart
This post brushes against politics, so consider this a gentle warning. But more than that, it brushes against grief. America feels especially gruesome right now.…
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Cultivation, not correction.
On choosing intentions over resolutionsEvery year, January shows up like a well-meaning drill sergeant.Fix this. Improve that. Do more. Be better. Try harder.As if becoming…
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Different Stages of Ripe
I had four Christmases this year, which feels aggressive considering how tired I am. One was with coworkers. One was with my actual family. One…
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Forest Optimism, or How I Learned to Keep the Light On
Who am I, really, if at the end of every day I can’t place my experiences under an optimistic light? That question has been sitting…
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The Season of Noise, Boundaries, and Chemical Tightropes
This week has made me want to talk about a few things. Not neatly. Not cheerfully. Just honestly. It’s the holiday season, which means humans…
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Family Ties
This past week felt like a whole season stuffed into a few days, the kind of stretch where life bursts at the seams in both…