As others have shared, I'm insanely grateful for this newsletter. Ask Polly has been a guiding light to me for a decade now. I recently "paused" my subscription during a big cross-country move (pinching pennies wherever I could lol), and it just reactivated this past weekend after months of minimal to no Polly. Never again, my friends! I've spent the morning drinking coffee and reading all the wonderful posts I missed.
I'm always left with the same feeling after reading Polly's advice, regardless of the topic. It's the feeling of hope. Or more like, the belief in hope. That it's good to hope and to simply decide the world is full of possibilities and new ways to delight you, whether it's love or friendship or art. It's never over for good. It's never all bad. The world can, and will, surprise you. As someone still struggling to put together some major puzzle pieces in my life, it helps me so much. It reorients me from my anxious find-the-puzzle-pieces!! energy to, hey, maybe if I just, I don't know, leave the house regularly, I'll eventually stumble across a few puzzle pieces on the ground.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, Heather. And congrats on your anniversary!
Your writings have held my hand through darkness Polly. I have wept into the night, and gone through my saved posts and saved emails again and again, reading your words, your voice resonating in my head, overpowering every negative voice that tells me that I am worth nothing, that I deserve nothing. I begin each day thinking that I deserve all the good things in the world. I fall, I get up again, shaking off the dust. You do so much good by writing for us, so so so much good. And I am so grateful that you exist. My faith sometimes wavers and I struggle with my prayers, but somehow when I meet and hear beautiful, genuine, honest, authentic, kind and amazingly brave people like you, somehow I feel the balance in the universe is restored. Anything in that moment seems possible. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.
3 years of comfort, magic and more. I have never hesitated to subscribe because your words are so valuable to me. Thank you for being a sharp knife that cuts through my doubt, fear and sometimes pain to show me that even when there are cracks there’s also a soft glow of hope ready to permeate me. I treasure the way you shape words to create a lens of beauty.
When my car broke down an hour away from home, half a dozen people who were just leaving the same outing as me stayed behind to help me out. I cried on their shoulders, they helped me figure out insurance and a tow truck, and they stayed with me until 1 AM when the tow truck took a wrong turn and was three hours late. I'm so grateful to call them my friends.
I'm grateful to so many other things as well, but there's not enough digital paper in the world to name them all. I'm grateful to the natural world for being so generous and forgiving. I'm grateful to my parents for accepting me for who I am. I'm grateful to my fiancee for just existing and for always being there for me.
I started reading Ask Polly in my senior year of college, when I was 21. I'm now 31, and I think that the words I took in from this column helped me so much in navigating this difficult (though in many ways wonderful!) decade. The *nice* voice in my head often sounds like Polly! I'll be a Polly + Molly subscriber forever. thank YOU! <3
Very grateful to you, too, Polly. <3 I can see I'm in good company with other commenters. Thank you for you for your work, you always help re-align me with how I want to think about my life, even if I don't comment often.
I'm so grateful for you, Heather! I've been reading your work for gosh maybe 7-8 years now and I've been loving your independent column best of all. The community you have created here has also been deeply nourishing for me. I look forward to your Monday posts. No matter how busy I am, I always make time to read. It helps me start my week with a perspective shift and a greater connection to our world.
Grateful for health. I awaken in the morning and think, I almost missed this! Being alive is hard, but it's magic. Thanks for continuously pointing that out no matter how big or small the problem is. If life were easy, we'd be bored and complacent. An organism in a static state is never closer to death. Shaking things up and getting out of our comfort zones forces us to grow and LIVE. I love hearing your perspectives, and they always come when I need them most. Grateful that you make the effort!
As others have shared, I'm insanely grateful for this newsletter. Ask Polly has been a guiding light to me for a decade now. I recently "paused" my subscription during a big cross-country move (pinching pennies wherever I could lol), and it just reactivated this past weekend after months of minimal to no Polly. Never again, my friends! I've spent the morning drinking coffee and reading all the wonderful posts I missed.
I'm always left with the same feeling after reading Polly's advice, regardless of the topic. It's the feeling of hope. Or more like, the belief in hope. That it's good to hope and to simply decide the world is full of possibilities and new ways to delight you, whether it's love or friendship or art. It's never over for good. It's never all bad. The world can, and will, surprise you. As someone still struggling to put together some major puzzle pieces in my life, it helps me so much. It reorients me from my anxious find-the-puzzle-pieces!! energy to, hey, maybe if I just, I don't know, leave the house regularly, I'll eventually stumble across a few puzzle pieces on the ground.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, Heather. And congrats on your anniversary!
Your writings have held my hand through darkness Polly. I have wept into the night, and gone through my saved posts and saved emails again and again, reading your words, your voice resonating in my head, overpowering every negative voice that tells me that I am worth nothing, that I deserve nothing. I begin each day thinking that I deserve all the good things in the world. I fall, I get up again, shaking off the dust. You do so much good by writing for us, so so so much good. And I am so grateful that you exist. My faith sometimes wavers and I struggle with my prayers, but somehow when I meet and hear beautiful, genuine, honest, authentic, kind and amazingly brave people like you, somehow I feel the balance in the universe is restored. Anything in that moment seems possible. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.
3 years of comfort, magic and more. I have never hesitated to subscribe because your words are so valuable to me. Thank you for being a sharp knife that cuts through my doubt, fear and sometimes pain to show me that even when there are cracks there’s also a soft glow of hope ready to permeate me. I treasure the way you shape words to create a lens of beauty.
I am grateful for you, Heather! My second therapist. :) Big congrats on your third anniversary.
When my car broke down an hour away from home, half a dozen people who were just leaving the same outing as me stayed behind to help me out. I cried on their shoulders, they helped me figure out insurance and a tow truck, and they stayed with me until 1 AM when the tow truck took a wrong turn and was three hours late. I'm so grateful to call them my friends.
I'm grateful to so many other things as well, but there's not enough digital paper in the world to name them all. I'm grateful to the natural world for being so generous and forgiving. I'm grateful to my parents for accepting me for who I am. I'm grateful to my fiancee for just existing and for always being there for me.
I started reading Ask Polly in my senior year of college, when I was 21. I'm now 31, and I think that the words I took in from this column helped me so much in navigating this difficult (though in many ways wonderful!) decade. The *nice* voice in my head often sounds like Polly! I'll be a Polly + Molly subscriber forever. thank YOU! <3
Very grateful to you, too, Polly. <3 I can see I'm in good company with other commenters. Thank you for you for your work, you always help re-align me with how I want to think about my life, even if I don't comment often.
So beautiful! Thank you! I needed to hear this today.
Reading your work is like therapy. I'm grateful for you and what you bring to this blasted, beautiful world. Happy Holidays!
Congratulations, Heather!!!
I'm so grateful for you, Heather! I've been reading your work for gosh maybe 7-8 years now and I've been loving your independent column best of all. The community you have created here has also been deeply nourishing for me. I look forward to your Monday posts. No matter how busy I am, I always make time to read. It helps me start my week with a perspective shift and a greater connection to our world.
Grateful for health. I awaken in the morning and think, I almost missed this! Being alive is hard, but it's magic. Thanks for continuously pointing that out no matter how big or small the problem is. If life were easy, we'd be bored and complacent. An organism in a static state is never closer to death. Shaking things up and getting out of our comfort zones forces us to grow and LIVE. I love hearing your perspectives, and they always come when I need them most. Grateful that you make the effort!
Thank you so much <3 I feel so changed by your words over the years!
What a enlightened and lovely read 😍
You're so incredible! I am so grateful for everything you have written and recommended over the years. I love all of it!
thank you very much