# Four Questions and a Nap

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Podcast: [I am OPTimist](https://stenobird.com/podcast/i-am-optimist-7143643)
Published: 2026-07-25T02:24:27+00:00
Episode link: https://www.monikabravo.blog/p/four-questions-and-a-nap
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Hey, I sat down and I wrote two articles a few days apart. Just when I was going to start recording, I’m like, “Mmm, this doesn’t feel right because there’s something that has shifted in me. Every time I want to say something, do something, or create an awareness of the relationship I’m having with the thing, situation, or person, I’m asking the same question: -Is this solar? -Is this coming from my heart? -Does this need to be spoken? -Does this need to be published? It’s not that I became a doubtful person, but right now I’m confronting a reality that my identity has shifted or is in the process of transformation. Therefore, I’m also taking time to realize how it is that I want to encounter the other. So instead of publishing what I wrote about economics, or God only knows what I was talking about… ( even the Nodal Shift this weekend, any other major thing, or anything astrologically that’s going on, or what’s going on with Bitcoin ), do I want to write about that ? Even if I have a lot to say, do I actually want to engage with it this way? That was a question. And the answer, after a long nap because I’m very tired these days, was no. So here I am writing about not publishing what I’ve written. My first piece was about economics, and it was very different. It was stating positions and asking the reader to agree or disagree with them, or build an argument to be defended or to be let go. This time around, it’s not an argument about anything. It’s just barely an observation of a shift, and so by observing it, is what’s becoming the content. It is enacting the very question that it poses rather than answering it from the outside. The four questions that I posted, I feel, really come from a place where I am being loyal to myself. These are not rhetorical questions. Each…

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