A Brief Respite from the Void

Hello, my cosmic neurokin!

It’s been a minute, hasn't it? The silence has felt longer than I intended, life has been happening at a breakneck pace, in a chaotic-magickal way.

I've taken on the role of project managing a new restaurant opening, and it's consuming every bit of my focus and energy. This undertaking is intense, and it's taking a significant toll on my chronic conditions.

Yet, here's the paradox: overseeing a project of this magnitude is somehow much less damaging to my health than the constant, grinding anxiety of poverty and dependence on disability support.

The endless worry over whether I could pay bills, the rejections from part-time jobs I wasn’t a good fit for, and the general precarity of that life was a greater drain on my body and spirit.

This new work, while physically demanding, is a ritual of resistance against that reality. My goal is to reduce or eliminate my dependency on social security altogether by next year.

I have so much more to say about the profound political act of creating sanctuary in a world that is criminalizing our right to exist. As time allows, I’ll be sharing these thoughts more in-depth on my Substack.

In the meantime, you can still catch me and my co-host Christine weekly on the Strange Attractors podcast.

Keep each other safe,

Nicole