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this was so interesting to think about how we frame these conversations. and I DID used to be more fun but I also was drunker and anxious so cheers to getting older and staying a good amount of fun 😀

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Truly 100 cheers to having less booze and less anxiety, I want to tell my younger self to just relax, she'll get there, it'll still be a romp!

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Thanks for the nice article. It is amazing how much time and money we spend trying to look younger, or whatever else "the algorithm" has convinced us we should look like.

Keep trying to be fun!

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Phew, right?! And thanks for the kind words. Fun Winter is ON!

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This article was filled with lovely thoughts, and actually made me smile. I am sorry for the lower back pain ;)

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Ahh thank you for reading and sharing this! How surprised would my younger self be to learn I have even *become fond* of my meditative little back stretch moments!

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Sep 19Liked by Erica Berry

This was such an interesting piece. I’ve been thinking about aging and climate change in other ways too, so it was nice to see your reflections!

Also a jazz composition of Wolfish sounds amazing, it reminds me of this hilarious but relaxing cassette my sister would play in the 90s: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nzfbrbW5pHI

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This cassette is EXQUISITE, I don't know how I wrote a wolf book without having this piped through my ears during whole brainstorm process. I'd be interested to hear how you're thinking about these future-y topics! I struggled to let myself even view them in the same sentence because the scales are so vastly different, but then was interested what happened when they were...

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Sep 18Liked by Erica Berry

"sea levels will never be this low" 😭😭😭

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Here in solidarity, tromping through the flooded Long Beach hiking trails with you!

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I’m so intrigued about that geographer…has he written a book or articles I could find? Fascinating!

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Yes! I'll send it to you

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