I had planned to have the last part of the Beyond the “Bare Necessities” series finished for you all to send out this week. It’s so close to being finished. But I realized at 9pm on Thursday night (when I should be putting the polishing touches on it, recording audio, and scheduling to send it out), that I still had more thoughts to explore within it, and I didn’t know if I could finish it this week.
I want to make sure I’m sending out my words on big topics from the healthiest mindset possible. I want it to come from the places in my mind that are most at peace and genuine and least triggered. And trying to finish that post was too much for my spirit to handle this week.
I debated whether to write anything new or not. The work to start a new essay in the hopes it would be good enough to send out…
But then I realized that what I need to do in this moment is to just be honest, sort of like last week. But shorter.
It’s been a bad week.
Irony is so weird. I fell out of the hammock the week before, and my husband fell off a bicycle last weekend. Both of us hit our elbows in our respective accidents. Fortunately for me, I’m all healed up. Unfortunately for him, we aren’t sure if it’s a fracture yet or not. To quote Alanis Morissette*, “And who would’ve thought, it figures.”
All of this talk about the “bare necessities” of life, and I’ll just tell you all right now - we don’t have health insurance. It’s a physical bare necessity that we can’t afford right now, as we have opted to prioritize our mental health over anything else at the moment. I have many “thoughts” on various systems in this country with the prison and justice systems being tied for number one and the healthcare system being number two. But that’s a conversation for another day.
At any rate, we went to urgent care and he’s to keep it immobile for the week and we will see how it feels and go from there.
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