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I've been reading a wonderful poetry called Instructions for Traveling Less by Joy Sullivan.

And it's been so fun. I've never been a poetry girlie. I've never been into that kind of short form writing.

But Joy is so gifted at what she does. And of course, Sagittarius in me is like,

what? Instructions for Traveling West, which is her real life. These are poems based off of her

real life and up and leaving Ohio to go to Oregon. But I love it. There's something so magical

about the western half of the United States, and it's

totally residual energy from the settlers that came here and the Native Americans, the real Americans.

There's just, you can feel that energy out there. And so I think a lot of people who are

craving change and reinvention, they go to left coast to find that.

So I've been enjoying this book.

And it inspired me to write some of my own poetry.

I don't know if I'll ever publish a poetry book.

I'm still a sucker for long form content in writing.

It's really challenging.

And I think I'll turn all of the little poems that I have

in my notes app or on my sticky notes here into a massive book one day, but it's been really fun.

And Joy's book inspired me to kind of add a little poetic twist into this podcast episode

about giving each sign a permission slip to be who they are.

I mean, let's dive deep into this. Why the fuck do we need a permission slip to be who we are?

Because we live in such a nuanced world where people have experienced pain, abandonment, trauma, betrayal, abuse of all shapes, colors, and sizes from all different people, young people, old people, family, friends, strangers.

It's so nuanced. There's no possible way that we can live amongst each other without

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