Try the Opposite

Sleep is medicine.
Italian Proverb

I woke to a rainstorm thinking about what I would tell a 22 year old cyclothymic artist. As a 55 year old woman I might be able to offer some hard won advice about how to navigate moods. I'd say experiment: Try doing the opposite of what you feel. For example if you feel energetic and on fire stay home and write in your journal and read and make soup. If you are feeling like you are being boiled in oil, or someone is peeling off your skin, take a walk with your dog and be ready to listen to and chat with people on the sidewalk. Put a little Yin in your Yang.

I am so saddened to hear the news of CD Wright's death. I got to meet her in the 90's when English Teacher Mary Lee Druin invited us to read poetry and talk about our work up at Burrillville Highschool. More recently we were going to have lunch when we had to postpone due to a severe winter storm.