Please forgive my unplanned three-week absence. My brain held me hostage and wouldn’t let me write posts. That’s a post for another time (maybe); for now, I am dropping in to let you know, I did a thing! 😀
I created an Instagram page just for the “Musings from My Younger Self.” I launched it earlier this month (on my birthday) and have been having a “fabulous” time going through the cringe-worthy writings of my youth. The plan is to post to Instagram as I am curating a collection or two or three!
I am slowly desensitizing myself to the “cringe-factor,” but I am finding that the hardest thing to do is not edit my younger self, to simply let her be. She was insightful, funny, and disciplined in her writing practice–I can learn a lot from younger me!
I’ll be sure to share with you what I’m calling a few of my “country heartbreak poems” later this month. For now, please check out one of the poems of my youth in The Gumbo Collective, the online literary arts journal of Oakwood University: Purple Rose.
And if you’re on Instagram, be sure to follow my musings. Feel free to comment on the writings of the decades younger Chandra Lynn, even if you find them cringey too: Musings From My Younger Self.
Welcome back Chandra and will look you up on Insta and follow 😊
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Thank you! 🤗
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Missed you!
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I missed everyone too!
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Sometimes the best we can do us get through the day.
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Yes. I am having lots of those days lately.
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I just went to follow your instagram. What a cool idea! I look forward to reading your youthful musings.
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Thank you!!! I think I followed you back. 😀
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I need to catch up, but so far what I have read are not cringers at all. Looking forward to this new “you”. Have fun Chandra! xoxo
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Aww…thanks, Sheila-girl. They are becoming less cringey as I work with them. I hope I find time to type up the “country heart-break” poems. I am looking forward to sharing them on the blog.
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