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Hi, I'm Monica Packer from About Progress, and this is a hug and a kick, a series where I share a short excerpt from my extensive

podcast archives, one carefully selected to give you the validation and or motivation you need for

the weekend. Creating both making artwork and doing things with my hand, working through ideas, and in particular

right now, writing. It is a form of self-therapy. And there's a quote by Louise Glick,

one of my favorite poets that says, and it says writing, but I think it could be creativity in general.

Writing is a kind of revenge against circumstance and bad luck, loss, pain.

If you make something out of it, then you've no longer been bested by these events.

And I think, so in reference to a particular time, I, so I mentioned I recently was diagnosed with MS.

And I knew that it was my experience to own,

that I didn't want that experience to be handed to me

and dictated for me by circumstances themselves.

And maybe that's just a matter of me wanting control.

But the act of writing about the experience in the weeks

immediately post the diagnosis was a really, really expansive experience. And it made me curious

about the world in ways that I would not have been able to see otherwise.

And I think that is the beauty of allowing ourselves to fully immerse ourselves to as much as we can

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