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My Dear 123 Followers
A Thank You Note
Today is a day of beatific rapture. I had reserved this post for when I eventually hit one hundred followers, but oh — you cheeky monkeys — you waited until I slept and went well beyond my humble wishes!
If you have read my more personal essays on here, some of you might know that these once tender feet have walked a harrowing road of hot coals towards the calloused hooves of resilience they have become; a road cobbled in the belief that my decades-old flagellations would one day award me gumption enough to believe in my own written words; a road whose gobbled miles might one day dispel the chastising inner monologues that always made sure I finished no single piece of work — be it poem, short story, or essay.
Today is not about me, my dears: it is about you. Each one hundred and twenty-three of you who took the time to read, clap, highlight or comment any of my pieces has lifted me from the doldrums of self-doubt.
For me, it is essential that you know that you have given me strength, creativity and a motivation I have seldom felt in my life to return your love in the form of regularly published multidisciplinary content.
I am still figuring out my creative non-fiction voice — that much is sure — and so I invite you along this journey so you too can share my rather public…
