Oct 30Liked by Amanda Saint, Kaitlyn Ramsay, Matthew Long
I really enjoyed these two personal essays. Very nice to hear from my friend-whom-I’m-yet-to-meet, Amanda. Amanda and I support each other here on Substack and I really enjoyed getting to know her a little bit better.
We really should. I will tell you that I am terrible about committing to meeting someone new on zoom because I get nervous; my shyness and introversion kick in, plus anxiety around phone/FaceTime conversations. I wish we could just meet at the local coffee shop. I wouldn't even be nervous about that at all! Telling you in the hopes it helps me find a solution. 😊 (I've been putting off scheduling a zoom with Maia Durrer as well)
Yes, the Atlantic ocean is something of an obstacle isn’t it? And it’s not that I don’t want to. I want to! Well, what I really want is to have talked to you so many times that I no longer feel anxious about setting up a zoom meeting 😀
Or we can set up a time. I work a lot during the day, but I know you are 5 hours ahead of me so I'm sure we can arrange something. You'd have to set it up since I don't have a zoom account of my own.
Oct 30Liked by Amanda Saint, Kaitlyn Ramsay, Matthew Long
Three very good writers and thinkers here! I really enjoyed this piece—and now I even have a new Tao Te Ching translation to place on my TBR list! Thanks to each of you! Substack community at its best.
It was fun to see you in Matthew’s post. I’ve never considered myself a “misfit,” but I fit how you defined it. (No pun intended.) As an introvert, especially over the span of my teen years through high school, I was never one for crowds and didn’t really care to “fit in” with certain fashion trends, party-attitudes, or cliques. Just content to do my own thing but aware of solitude and loneliness at times. If that doesn’t define “misfit,” I’m not sure what does—unless you are a Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer fan and wish you were on “the island of misfits.”
I really enjoyed these two personal essays. Very nice to hear from my friend-whom-I’m-yet-to-meet, Amanda. Amanda and I support each other here on Substack and I really enjoyed getting to know her a little bit better.
Thanks, Matthew!
We really should arrange a time to meet on Zoom, Don! As in person is a bit tricky! 💙
We really should. I will tell you that I am terrible about committing to meeting someone new on zoom because I get nervous; my shyness and introversion kick in, plus anxiety around phone/FaceTime conversations. I wish we could just meet at the local coffee shop. I wouldn't even be nervous about that at all! Telling you in the hopes it helps me find a solution. 😊 (I've been putting off scheduling a zoom with Maia Durrer as well)
Ah well I don’t want you to do it if it doesn’t feel right! Sadly the great big Atlantic Ocean makes your local coffee shop hard to get to! 💙
Yes, the Atlantic ocean is something of an obstacle isn’t it? And it’s not that I don’t want to. I want to! Well, what I really want is to have talked to you so many times that I no longer feel anxious about setting up a zoom meeting 😀
There’s only one way for that to happen!
That is correct. When shall we meet? 😊 I'm available now!
Or we can set up a time. I work a lot during the day, but I know you are 5 hours ahead of me so I'm sure we can arrange something. You'd have to set it up since I don't have a zoom account of my own.
Three very good writers and thinkers here! I really enjoyed this piece—and now I even have a new Tao Te Ching translation to place on my TBR list! Thanks to each of you! Substack community at its best.
It’s a really great translation!
It was fun to see you in Matthew’s post. I’ve never considered myself a “misfit,” but I fit how you defined it. (No pun intended.) As an introvert, especially over the span of my teen years through high school, I was never one for crowds and didn’t really care to “fit in” with certain fashion trends, party-attitudes, or cliques. Just content to do my own thing but aware of solitude and loneliness at times. If that doesn’t define “misfit,” I’m not sure what does—unless you are a Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer fan and wish you were on “the island of misfits.”
I tried my hardest to fit in when I was a teenager and young adult but always knew underneath the facade it wasn’t really working!
Or necessary, right?
Yep. It’s been a huge relief to let it go.