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I love this perspective so much.

Anyone who has ever had to pay rent or utilities or feed a child or themselves knows there is a minimum.

We do a disservice when we romanticize small, because small that doesn’t meet the minimum is stressful and not kind to the soul.

But small, when it meets the ‘enough’, yes, that is something worth seeking. Beyond that is, I think, where we find the senseless noise and chaos.

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I think I'd see that art show a totally different way today. I wish I could revisit it.

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Kate, I suppose it may seem like I missed the point entirely (it wouldn’t be the first time 😝 and maybe I did)…

But for perspective, I read your article while lying on perhaps the most beautiful beach I’ve ever been to, with someone I love, feeling unusually happy and “enough”, in Greece, where I happened to be pondering the future.

For perhaps the first time in my life, I feel like I’m experiencing the second part of your article - enough so that I can hopefully more holistically consider the first part.

In other words, I think all of it can be true at once. Your article is the first in a while to truly meet me where I am.

Thank you so much for your heartfelt, thoughtful perspectives. ❤️

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Oh, I don't think you missed it at all. I think you are right where you need to be! It's the hope in writing pieces like this, isn't it? That the writing can meet everyone where they are.

(And we all wish we were with you!)

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Yes and yes! 💖 ✍️ 🏝️

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