Well, hello there. It's Morgan Harper-Nichols here and welcome to the show. Today's episode

is called Overwhelm and Curiosity. Two things that may at times feel unrelated. And however,

even when I try to intellectually connect them, like, oh, my overwhelm is something that I can be curious about, I struggle with what that looks like practically.

And this is why I love writing poetry and writing stories and creating art is because it creates room to explore

these various issues in our life that may be hard to put in a words or maybe hard to figure

out but just first creating room for them so I'm going to be reading a story that is about overwhelm.

And I've shared this online a few times, but I hadn't shared it in this format yet.

And I just wanted to create some space for that.

And aside from the fact that in my own life, being overwhelmed is something

that comes up. Whenever I ask on social media, there's been times where I've created artwork

in response to the stories that people share with me. That's something I've been doing for

five years now. And there are times where I do it

in real time on social media and I'll share like an Instagram story that says, can you just

describe how you feel in one word? And I'll respond to certain people who have responded to that with art.

And one of the biggest words that shows up out of five years of doing this, some

variation of this is overwhelm.

It's a really big word for a lot of people for a lot of different situations in life.

So whatever your relationship is with that word, even if today

is a day where you're not feeling overwhelmed, one thing that I always like to think about is

even on the days where I'm fine, at least one of my neighbors is not. At least somebody that I

know has something going on. So with poetry and stories and art, it's my hope that these can not just

be about like an individual experiencing it, but the collective feeling. And that's what

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