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9:34 PM, Saturday August 1st 2020

What are you going through Molly? Maybe we can help/inspire each other. At the very least it may be theraputic to get yout thoughts out.

Alan

8:27 PM, Monday August 17th 2020

Hi again,

Thanks for your reply! I'm much more stable mentally than I was at the begining of the month, but now main issue currently is that I just have so so much to do that I am having a hard time deciding which priorities deserve my attention. Right now it has been less about drawing and I need to find a way to keep some sort of consistency. I have gotten a few ideas about this from a book I just read called Atomic Habits by James Clear and so far some of the things I have read about and been experimenting with are working.

Another stressor has been my university. We will be having all classes online because of covid and so on the 24th I'm going to be adjusting to that and figuring out how to schedule out my life so I can do the things that are important to me. Hope you are doing okay today, I've been meaning to get back to you and I was finally able to find some time to do so.

Talk to you later,

Molly

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