Let's wrap this week up.

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I feel pretty good this week. I think that I am slowly climbing out of the trough that I’ve been in, and I’m cautiously optimistic that I will be feeling better soon. Thanks for all of the encouragement—you all are awesome. I am feeling cautiously optimistic about the future, which honestly is a sea change from even two weeks ago.

This is about as much optimism as my body can take, honestly. I’m mildly allergic.

Today I made breakfast, fixed a blocked bathtub, planned a week’s meals with Jennifer, made two different brines (don’t tell those guys at America’s Test Kitchen or they’ll taunt me with, “I guess you do have time for all these f*ing brines after all!”***) for chicken and pork chops. After I write this I’m going to practice guitar for the day, and do a bit of writing. Then I will make supper. This is massive. This is more than I was able to do in a week for a large part of the last few months.

Tonal shift.

I’m not going to talk about the news other than to say that it’s a lot right now, and I imagine we’re all feeling pretty anxious. Hopefully we are taking the necessary precautions, and I’ll leave it at that.

Y’all be safe. Y’all be sweet, and y’all be really gentle with yourselves. Get as much rest as possible. Jedi hugs to all of you.

I almost forgot—the Discord server for this newsletter is up now. Please join in the discussion if you wish. I do not want to moderate any more than I have to, so please just be cool as a fan on there. The invite is below with the other links.

***Followers of either mine or Jennifer’s Twitter accounts have probably seen one of my many rants about America’s Test Kitchen, and their mania for salt water baths for every damned food.

Thank you, as always, for reading.

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