Ask Baba Yaga: How Can I Create Stability?

Transcript after the jump.

Dear Baba Yaga,

Ever since I quit a stressful job three years ago, I have been floating between periods of unemployment. Opportunities seem to brush past me, close enough to touch with my fingertips but dissolving quickly. After so many years of insecurity, how do I create stability?

BABA YAGA:

You have been now a long time in the deep, slow part of the river living. ;In that time strange inklings have shaped you: yr skin come transparent, little webblies between yr fingers & toes. You know what beings approach by the way the water blooms & reeks around you. ;Now the land life is strange to you, but as a frog you know both worlds & this is what makes you suited to the larger earth, & why you will survive vaster than the others. ;Put yr jellied feets on the silted banks & see the hoofed animals kneel before you.

Previously: How Do I Rekindle My Belief In Men?

Taisia Kitaiskaia is a poet, writer, and Michener Center for Writers fellow. She’s taking questions on behalf of Baba Yaga at [email protected].