Dear A, Have you been well? I have written and rewritten this feeling I have been carrying with me for days now, and all that is left for me to say is all that I can give within the enclosed. I hope that my clumsy expression serves you in some way.
Content Warning: Mentions of Depression and Symptoms of Depression NOTE: There is no replacement for professional mental and emotional guidance in the form of therapy. However if therapy is a resource that is not easily attainable and you find yourself in need, please consider reaching out to a helpline such as
Written and Produced by myself, Veronica Sisneros nee Vestal
Find me online as @veronero_chan on Twitter, Tiktok and Instagram. Have a letter you'd like to submit, send it on in at thoughtfulwild.co@gmail.com and title it LTA Submission with permission to read for the show. Credit for today's quote is provided by the influential French Novelist, Gustave Flaubert, in a letter written to George Sand he states,
"As for me, my heart is oppressed in a way that astonishes me, and I wallow in a bottomless melancholy"
Honorable mention includes the work of Rainer Maria Rilke from "The Book of Hours" in which we refer to his statement,
"Yet no matter how deep I go into myself, My God is dark."