Katie Anderson

“To speak about it is to will it into existence. And to will it into existence is to let it occupy your thoughts more. And to let it occupy your thoughts more is to enhance your anxiety.” That’s why on Sundays, right after church, she’d have us all sit down on the kitchen table and scrawl all our worries from the week on a sheet of paper. Then we’d stuff them in a jar, and once a year, in the summer, we’d make a fire and burn all those thoughts and feelings. It was liberating. The metaphysical weight of our troubles was lifted off us as the scraps burned to ashes. We’d always walk away from that fire taller, more comfortable.”
― Jeanine Bennedict, Midnight Kisses