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A. J. Hackwith (is on semi-hiatus)
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I know I should try be more Interesting(tm) on twitter right now, but friends, gonna be real, we're at the start of the dark time of the year where it takes everything to keep a deathgrip on my mental health or give up till April. It's hard. It's real hard.
It's not the holidays--I'm a holiday nerd--but anxiety means I got a tripwired brain and no vitamin D and a book deadline. I could disappear and not talk about it, but maybe right now is hard for you. Maybe you're walking that highwire too.

I want to say it's okay.
Just taking care of yourself can feel like a failure, but I promise it's not. Whatever you're doing right now, it's enough. Whatever you manage to do today will be enough. Brains have seasons too, fertile and fallow. And every season changes.
And until then, if you got a soft word or a puppy gif for us to hold onto, whichver season you're in, I'd love to see it here.
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I’ve had feelings over the news the last couple days, but I have this fear that, like an internal scream, if I let it out once I’ll not be able to stop.

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