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My take-away from this beautiful piece: If you become aware of your shadows and address them, you begin to move like water. Only then does life become more peaceful and fluid, and each morning a restorative ritual.

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Beautiful reflection. Ride the wave, G 🌊

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If being hunted by the thought “I don’t know what to write for my newsletter” creates these kinds if reflections, well, then I guess I want you to be haunted forever? (Kidding—partially).

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Profound perspective that sources from a place of humility and acceptance:

“That’s a particularly charming characteristic of this life — we get exactly what we need, when we need it, when we have no clue we need it in the first place.”

So so beautiful.

Your newsletter is a true gift.

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Jul 23, 2023Liked by Grace Sydney Smith

Loved this, Grace.

More and more I think life is this continuous process of falling away and then returning to our selves. The dips are inescapable, inevitable. Natural.

(Ps. +100 for the French press)

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Someone once told me that thinking about writing IS writing. I never forgot that. It is, at least, a part of the process. As is not writing. I wish someone would have told me that sooner.

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