Pulling the Thread with Elise Loehnen

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Managing Our Energy

Managing Our Energy

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“The months before a book comes out of the chute are, for most writers, right up there with the worst life has to offer, pretty much like the first twenty minutes of Apocalypse Now, with Martin Sheen in the motel room in Saigon, totally decompensating. The waiting and the fantasies, both happy and grim, wear you down.” — Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

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