22. What Do You Like About Yourself?

A question. A couch. A flood of truth.

Week over week, I started learning what brought glimmers of joy to my being. Not just how to be human, but how to be my kind of human.

I loved paint — of all kinds, but especially when I used my hands to slather the brightest of hues on a canvas. I thoroughly enjoyed baking but only when I did it for others, (when it reminded me of my “cookie fairy” days…