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Podium: Holding On, Letting Go
Ten writers who made me laugh, slow down, and loosen my grip on a few things
A Collection from My Canvas
Some months, the ten I choose have nothing in common. This month, they did.
I didn’t plan it this way. Every month I read a lot, save the articles that stay with me, and then go back through them again and again before choosing the final ten. This month, while I was narrowing those down, I noticed something. Many articles were about holding on, and almost as many were about letting go.
When do you keep going, and when do you quit? How much do you give, and when do you stop? Can you forgive someone without going back to them? And how much of life can we really control? Less than we’d like to believe, probably.
Somewhere in between all that, one article made me laugh so hard at myself that I had to put my phone down for a minute. You’ll know which one when you get there.
So this month’s Podium is a little collection of all of that. Some pieces made me laugh, some made me pause, and a few made me rethink things I thought I already understood.
As always, this isn’t a ranking. I don’t know how anyone could rank writing like this, and I’m…
