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Oh, the arrogance of my youth! So much energy and resources that I wasted on the wrong things and the wrong people. But what could I have done? It was also the only way to learn and the only way to become. I did not have the guidance of parents who fully understood what adulting was. They only repeated what they saw from their own parents. I was pretty much left to my own devices, simply expected to take on the breadwinner mantle as old age crept on them, and the cost of livi
Marichit Garcia
Oct 252 min read


Daily Page, the First of October
How is it suddenly October? But I like October. I like the idea of Samhain. Of witches and thinning veils between worlds. Of autumn,...
Marichit Garcia
Oct 14 min read


Black Sheep
Photo by Jonathan Mabey  on Unsplash I am up and out of bed. I congratulate myself. Usually I would still be there, nursing a cooling mug...
Marichit Garcia
Aug 164 min read


Monster Season Back Too Soon
The monster has returned. It wears the face of obligation, the skin of expectation, the breath of never-enough. It knocks on the door...
Marichit Garcia
Jul 261 min read


From Barely Surviving the Weekend to a Monday That Almost Broke Me Again
I barely made it through the weekend, but I did. It wasn’t perfect, but there were moments. I had a moment at the therapist's when I...
Marichit Garcia
Mar 102 min read


Winging It Only Works If You Have Wings
Photo by Alexander Sinn  on Unsplash Recently at work, I have always felt like I've been winging it. I couldn't seem to hold on to having...
Marichit Garcia
Jan 294 min read


The Rollercoaster of Leadership
Photo by Brooke Lark, Unsplash In my dayjob I am a team leader. In the past three years I have gone from being a one-woman team into a...
Marichit Garcia
Jan 243 min read


A Life on a Tightrope
One wrong move, one miscalculation of balance, and I fall and I perish. This entry will be a lament. But maybe I will find a bright spot...

Marichit Garcia
Feb 19, 20233 min read