Sending y’all love who are having a rough time. 🖤
What feels like backsliding may actually just be the natural course of something old unraveling … you’re still moving forward.
They name my kind as having a “bittersweet condition”
… a near-constant melancholy that nevertheless brings with it awe, wonder, and contentment in finding depth.
Some days it is not easy for me to be awake — no matter where I go, and how much beauty and love I absorb, my safest place remains drawing, alone.
But I love every moment I have and aim only to increasingly welcome the entire range of the heartbreakingly beautiful experiences we get, deeply and profoundly, all of it.
When I am old and grey, you can come visit me on the mountain of quiet joy I will have built by then.
—ruby roth
Flommist Ruby Roth is an artist, designer, creative strategist, and the author-illustrator of four leading books for kids. Her work has been featured on Today, CNN, FOX, NBC, ABC News, and other major media outlets. Copyright © 2023 Ruby Roth.
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