That Place You Love: Gimme Truth Project
(3 mins) Round-Up on Credibility; Next-Up Confidence; Subscriber Housekeeping
Hola & Happy Friday!
It feels like ages since we shared stories about Credibility and Unsolicited Advice on Monday. If you haven’t had time to read the posts, I encourage you to visit both Distressed Denim and Filthy Hooks to catch up (HEART for reading) with the writers who shared later in the week. You can share on both prompts!
TPYL had a fascinating turn out for the second Episode: Credibility
I wrote about a stranger’s advice to avoid hooks, filthy as they are, my mother’s imposed wisdom on a young man’s dietary choices, and the responsibility to weigh the credibility of a source when considering unsolicited (or any) advice.
Carole D wrote about a confusing mall encounter with a veteran of the parent/child vegetable war. Four peas do not equal one cookie, if you were wondering!
Intact Animal questioned his own credibility for impulsively buying a car without seatbelts and driving it 20,000 miles before fixing the problem.
Zig wrote about breaking the fraught, unspoken agreement between mothers and daughters to carry relationship baggage into the next generation.
Alex wrote about the indoctrination of false cures in the war between the individual and the institution. Don’t hand your kids over to strangers!
Shirlé wrote about her dead name – “Don’t call me, Shirley” – and the unsolicited advice of an industry gatekeeper in her youth.
In Faith & Unnecessary Lies (Episode 1) Autumn wrote about a forgettable childhood lie overshadowed by middle school social blowback. Brutal!
TAKE A MOMENT TO READ & HEART THESE WRITERS & SHARE YOUR OWN UNSOLICITED ADVICE STORY IN THE COMMENTS.
(We don’t comment on other people’s writing here. That’s for FB, IG, TT, TWIT.)
Next Up: Confidence
On Monday, I’ll write about Confidence through the lens of truth and see what I come up with as a prompt. There’s a lot of room for self-deception when confidence is taking the lead…. something to consider ahead of Monday.
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More to come on Monday….
Have a great weekend. Sincerely, for real.
Michelle