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“We never use the word 'whelm' anymore
and yet the (now archaic) word itself means engulfed, submerged,
buried.
Can you be over-submerged?
more buried than buried?
Isn't being whelmed itself enough
to give pause?

I am just whelmed.

And when I am whelmed--
when I'm not sure what I can do
or how to proceed--
or worse, I can't find the desire to even try--
then
I just have to let it wash over me
like the ocean,
consume me
like the fire,
bury me
like the earth,
for just a little while.

It always feels like it will be forever,
but it never is.

Just whelmed.
Just awhile.

Then I can remember how to find a way--
break it down into
little pieces
start somewhere
keep going
until a path emerges
and I find my footing again.”
― Shellen Lubin