September 2024 Slug Club

Hello!

I can’t believe it is September and this is the LAST Slug Club letter of the season. Thank you all for being part of this newsletter, it feels so great to have everyone’s support of this slimy little club. Thank you for those of you who have expressed support through letters, posts and texts. I can’t explain how cool it feels to hear that people are enjoying this project, as it is very personal and your feedback and thoughts have been so encouraging.

As you know,

Going slow can be disruptive and sometimes lonely. I salute you all for fighting against the MORE and FASTER messaging that we have been saturated with since birth. The pressure to be “successful” and “productive” at all times is suffocating. I believe we are all more creative than that, and can find ways to de-throne these inherited values.

What will you replace them with?

I often described myself as a person that works “harder not smarter” it gets a laugh and is a little self deprecating, but I am working on accepting this part of myself fully. I see that my impulses to “make each one different” or “do every step” is not “good business” (eye roll emoji).  but I am not a business. Why is it so hard to get that in my slimy little head? I NEED To go my own pace, to learn every step. To make things feel truly mine is not always efficient or productive and that is okay. I see that this mentality could look like the steepest uphill battle I could have chosen. I understand that this way of operating has no chance in the “rat race”.

But I am trying to be like the slug. I wonder if a slug even understands that it is going uphill? Is it going so slow and feeling every rock and crack and texture under its soft naked body that there is no conception of its path being perceived as difficult?  Does it worry about or anticipate all the obstacles in its path? Or does it just take them as they come? Do they just figure it all out when they get there? Where is it even going?

I just don't think that the slug is so worried about the “best way there”.  And it certainly doesn't seem to care about getting “there” quickly. It is just going to keep sliming along no matter what, feeling every part of the way. This is my job. I love this work. So very slowly, I proceed.

So, to all my sluggy friends, thanks for taking it slow, we are all winning, because we are not racing :)

BIG LOVE,

If you or a young friend would like to keep the Sluggy times rolling this winter, I am introducing a new offering called Little Sluggy!

Little Sluggy is Slug Club for kids, it will be a similar monthly subscription, running November 2024- March 2025. It will be similar one page letter, this time in a looser format and with illustrations in full color.  Instead of a letter from me, the writing will be a short story about the characters on the front. Little Sluggy is intended to be light hearted and silly, and to give kids an excuse to get some fun mail over the winter months. Would you like some full color artwork or to be Auntie of the year?  You can sign yourself up or gift Little Sluggy to a kiddo in your life through my websites online shop.

Slug Club 2025 will start up next May ! I wish you all the slimiest winter. See you in the spring :)