Learning to tolerate yourself

Tips, tricks, inspiration, and encouragement for storytellers of all stripes

Greetings from Lexington, Virginia—

I know, I know. It’s been a couple weeks, plus why the heck am I writing you on a Tuesday instead of a Friday?

Well, as you may recall, my beloved Rebecca and I spent the last week of January moving from Florida to Michigan. Boxes were packed. A semi trailer was loaded. Possessions were purged or donated. Farewell dinners were laughed and cried through—and it’s not goodbye, it’s see ya down the road!

All went smoothly, even with an unplanned stop at a gas station somewhere in Ohio to clean the windshield as we relearned how defrosters work during an active snowfall!

We and the pups arrived safely, as did the semi, and we spent last week enjoying our new fireplace and unpacking and setting up our new house and doing our first exploratory walks to the nearby park and (frozen!) lake.

Yes, that’s a fancy “H” and a couple harps carved into the mantle. As in my beloved Rebecca HARP. :)

So I’ve not had the time or bandwidth to send out my weekly newsletter or jumpstart my dormant podcasts. Normalcy will return once I have my new office set up!

But normalcy is another week or so away, as this week I am back at it with tour life: a Wednesday performance of 11 DAYS at VMI (Virginia Military Institute) and a Sunday performance of LAST OUT in Columbus, Ohio. If you’re in either neighborhood, come check out a show!

In the meantime, my friend and brother-in-art, Scott Mann, hosts a kick-ass podcast… and I was a recent guest! The various links are below for you to listen and/or watch. We geek out hard about the power of storytelling and the challenge/gift of tolerating yourself.

Also, so many of you reached out and wished Rebecca, Gaia, Odin, and me well with our seismic transition. All gratitude! I look forward to getting back into the story-and-truth-telling groove with y’all soon.

Here’s the YouTube version of my podcast appearance with Scott…

Or you can listen on APPLE PODCASTS or over on SPOTIFY.

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Be sure to comment or hit me up with any questions/comments/complaints, thanks as always for reading, and have a great week—

Jason “Fireplace Enthusiast” Cannon