One Year Later: 'I've Been a Hot Mess, But I've Been Open to Miracles Anyway!'

Your needs shift constantly, and sometimes you just need much less of everything and *much* more compassion for your hard-working, mistake-prone self.

Faith, Surrounded by Hope, Charity and Other Monsters (1976) by Dorothea Tanning

Dear Polly,

I'm doing Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way (week one!) and one of the exercises is to write a thank you letter to someone who has been a champion of my creative self-worth. So that's what I'm doing here.

Almost exactly a year ago I sent you a letter about how I got…