Well, hello there. My name is Morgan Harper-Nichols. I'm an artist and a writer, and this is a space where I share words that I hope can make a little room for you to slow down and take a few deep breaths as you prepare for whatever lies ahead. Thanks for being here today. And now on to today's episode.

There is more to come. There is more to come. There is more to come. There is more to your story.

There is more to come. These phrases are phrases that have showed up in a lot of my poetry and prose that I've written over the years. However, because it showed up so much, I've been tempted to stop

saying it altogether. However, for whatever reason, it keeps coming back up. When I'm writing for

other people or when I'm making artwork, I find myself writing things with this sentiment. There is more

to come. There is more to your story. So I started to question myself and ask, why do I keep

writing about this? Why do I keep writing about more, more, more? Shouldn't I be telling myself and also

others to be content where you are and to not only focus on having more? And it's become something that I've wrestled with and I've

spent a lot of time thinking about. So I wanted to share with you how I've discovered that when I'm

writing about more, what I realize I'm actually saying beneath the layers. And I hope that it can be

encouraging and take some of the

pressure off of this feeling of needing to have more if you've ever dealt with that. So one way

to define the word more is a greater or additional amounts or degree of.

And I feel like that definition, for me at least, I feel like I need a bit more.

It's like, well, what does that even mean to have a greater quantity of what?

Of what?

What do I need more of?

And that is ultimately the question that I ended up asking myself.

Well, what do I need more of? If I keep writing about there's more to my story, there's more to come. Well, what is it? What do I need more of?

So here is a poem prose piece that I wrote that kind of asked that question and answers it.

And that answers it in such a way that I feel like this is just the most concrete definition of what we all need more of.

But I think that it helps us go a little bit deeper, beyond the surface level more

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