Meet Chrissy Woj, Chicago-based writer and performer.
I recently interviewed her about gratitude, risk-taking, and following one’s passions. She’s one of my beta-readers. She also received one of my origami gratitude lilies during the 2020 pandemic. (How do we talk about the pandemic now? The 2020 cycle versus the 2021 cycle? Summer 2020 versus Fall/Winter 2020/2021? Summer 2021? One long slog of misery? I used “2020 pandemic” to indicate that I mailed her lily last summer.)
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Our Zoom interview was a gift to me. Like many of my friends these days, Chrissy Woj and I live hundreds of miles apart. I see her once every few years if I’m lucky. Recently, we got together for a cheese picnic along Lake Michigan, but we kept our phones out of it. No selfies or pictures. Just face-to-face love and attention. We talked and stuffed ourselves with cheese and laughed and went cheese shopping.
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About my essay
“A GARDEN OF PANDEMIC GRATITUDE LILIES”
I used origami to fight pandemic depression. My essay recounts how I thanked humans, famous and ordinary. Every day, I penned a letter of thanks, folded it into an origami lily, and mailed it. I hoped to lift a few souls, but I never expected expressions of gratitude to change me. For anyone needing inspiration to tell someone they matter – right now – before it’s too late.
About Me
Andra Watkins is the author of four books. Her memoir Not Without My Father: One Woman’s 444-Mile Walk of the Natchez Trace hit the NYT bestseller list in October 2015. Her well-reviewed Nowhere trilogy targets the fiction lover. She gives rousting keynote speeches and has yet to meet a destination she doesn’t like. GET HER BOOKS HERE.
