Lotus of Control by Kate Summers

Lotus of Control by Kate Summers

What if it does get better?

On completing a goal born in survival mode: 49 states by 30 ✓

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Kate Summers
Jul 24, 2025
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A stunning glacier flows between snow-covered mountains into an icy, blue-gray bay scattered with floating ice chunks, under a bright sky with scattered clouds.
Stairway Glacier, Alaska

“But what if it does? What if it does get better?”
I rolled my eyes at my therapist as he said that.

I had just outlined a plan for if things got better and I stayed alive. I’d work through the summer, then spend the fall driving and traveling across the country: first to New Mexico, then to Oregon by way of California. It sounded…

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