Hey y’all,
I finished another diary yesterday. I started it on June 17th and ended it on October 2nd. It contains a whole summer. In the past, I’ve done video walkthroughs, but I thought today I’d push the limits of Substack and let y’all flip through some high-res images. (To see them big, click the share button below to open this post on the website, then you can click on the thumbnails to see them bigger.)
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Summer in Texas is often brutal — meteorologically, emotionally, and spiritually. One nice thing about keeping a diary is that I feel I have something to show for my days. I also have a record that I can re-read to remind me that “This, too, shall pass.”
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