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Hey Friend,

Charissa Steyn

Personal, little letters to you about staying human, curious, enchanted, creative, and playful, while we meander through our weird, wild lives + try never to give up on ourselves.

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Welp, I Unpublished That.

Hey Friend,

As I expected, no less than 24 hours after writing about my nuanced stance on the conversation around AI, and LLMs specifically, I unpublished it.

It now sits forlorn in my drafts.

I’m just too uncertain about these tools t...

8 days ago
1

Did you see what I’ve been making?

Hey Friend,

I've been making heretic art. Taking scriptures I had memorized, religious concepts and practices still lodged deep in my body from the first 30 plus years of my life and transforming them.

These creations are a bit child...

11 days ago
1

This is what I told my 14-year-old son when he said he didn’t want to grow up (and the advice I needed too)

Well hello, my sweet friends,

It’s Monday. How are you doing?

I’m curious if this has ever happened to you— have you ever been overcome with an intense longing for childhood?

It happened to me a couple of weeks ago.

I was crying on...

12 days ago
1

Maybe this is the only way to live?

Hey Friend,

Last night, I was suddenly overcome with all the nuance dwelling within me. I felt like a total fraud. How can a single person be the home to so many conflicting ideas, desires, and convictions? Figure yourself out already, Ch...

17 days ago
4

Tiny Acts Of Self Expression

Hey Friend,

After therapy this afternoon, I pulled a palette of watercolors from my youngest’s catch-all drawer and knew exactly what I wanted to paint.

I would never in a million years call myself a watercolor artist.

But that’s the w...

18 days ago
3

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    I want to spend my days writing little love letters + seeking whimsy. Here you'll find permission to be creative, curious, playful, + imperfectly human.

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