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Susan Eiseman Levitin's avatar

So glad this is bringing you joy, my friend.

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China Martens's avatar

thank you!

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Cecile Somers-Lee's avatar

Huzzah & you’ve done it again! Beautiful, inspiring, poetic lines: “I find lately I just don’t want to hold back, and regret the words I do. I’m still learning, however, my own balance, learning how to ride a bike on the dawn of forgetting it all.”

Wow.

I’m cheering here for you, China, and thank you again for your honesty and openness. I also thank you for reposting what I wrote, because I’d forgotten the exact words. (…)

Here’s to wildly riding our before-we-forget-it-all bicycles across the crazily quilted lawn of our older age writer dream life.

Thank you & big love! To a thousand followers!

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Cecile Somers-Lee's avatar

Also: very cool pic at the top!

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China Martens's avatar

I spent half the day trying to find a less blurry version but gave up! its a photograph of a painting of me done from a photograph. from an ex

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China Martens's avatar

I missed Thursday's substack deadline but I'm super busy writing w/ Ariel Gore's memoir class and it's GOOD. just working on things that take longer before I post.

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