A Note from B
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A Note from B
Hello Dear WITD-ers,
Billie here, writing with a couple updates.
First of all, sorry we will not have a thread coming out today. My mom was up last night with a scratched cornea and spent the day at urgent care—all your healing thoughts & energy are welcome!—so she wasn’t able to get the thread out to you all. (But I made a super cute illustrations for what was going to be today’s thread so at least you have that to look forward to later.)
We are going to reschedule tomorrow’s COMMONS meeting (due to the eye situation). Lookout for details on the reschedule.
If you are interested in joining CRAFT SCHOOL (which you should because it is going to be very fun and cool you’ll get the chance to do some neat floaty body meditations with me) general registration will open tomorrow.
Lastly, in lieu of my mom’s usual lovely musings and in honor of her teaching me most of all the things I know about love and being a parent and being an imperfect human, I wanted to share an old poem-ish thing with…
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