I know this isn’t the point of the rant you just posted at all, but I absolutely love your writing and if you stopped blogging I would be incredibly sad. Everything that you post either forces me to confront things I don’t often consider, or gives voice to things I’m already thinking about but haven’t figured out how to express. It doesn’t matter if your writing itself isn’t totally academic in style or tone; it’s that what you write is thoughtful, passionate, and entirely well-articulated.

I took the post down already because of course it was self centered and whiny.

I sincerely appreciate your message. Today, more so than you can imagine.

I want to believe I take criticism well. Perhaps what I do not take well are “put downs”, when I feel someone is trying to “put me in my place”, so to speak. That enrages me because it’s the kind of nonsense that I try to eliminate on a day to day basis, hoping we no longer have to put up with “being told”.

And of course, while discussing the “put down”, someone I care very much for said “there is only a minor problem with some stuff you write” and of course this person said it in a positive way, but oh do I amplify it! WHAT PROBLEM? WHAT IS IT? IT SUCKS DOESN’T IT?! Queue in the “spiral of self hatred and insecurity”.

But yes, all I want is to offer perspective. Sometimes I succeed, and sometimes I don’t. But it is the only goal I have in mind.

And thank you. From the bottom of my heart 🙂

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