Things That Don't Suck

Things That Don't Suck

Welcome To: "Things That Don't Suck"

Sometimes the break in your heart, is like the hole in the flute. Sometimes it’s the place where the music comes through

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Andrea Gibson
Sep 07, 2021
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Andrea Gibson quote for substack newsletter, Things That Don't Suck. "It's common to look around and take inventory of what sucks. This is one poet's quest to uncover what doesn't, and what shifts when we shift our attention" written on a white sticky note with a blue background with a yellow moon

I’d never been called a “positive-thinker”. I often joked that if I still wore day-of-the-week underwear, they’d all say “Doomsday.” But the day my therapist said, "The only thing we have control over is where we put our attention", something shifted in me tectonically. I began writing a list poem titled, “Things That Don’t Suck.” The list included rece…

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