It's a mad, mad, mad, mad Monday
We're All Mad Scientists
Today isn’t just Monday, March 20, 2017. It could also be the first day of a five-day experiment. What happens if you walk 15,000 steps every day? Only eat green food and grains? Or a slice of pie every night? (Preferable...) Text/email/Snap five people from your past just to say “heyyyy”? Practice that one elusive yoga pose during lunchtime? These don’t have to be habits you want to keep forever. Consider them not-so-clinical trials into what might work for you.
How to Be a Champion
You wonder how they do it,
You look to see the knack,
You watch the foot in action,
Or the shoulder or the back.
But when you spot the answer
Where the glamours lurk,
You’ll find in moving higher
Up the laurel-covered spire,
That most of it is practice,
And the rest of it is work.
—Henry Grantland Rice
Grantland Rice was a sportswriter in the ‘20s who also wrote poetry (because of course). The legendary UCLA basketball coach John Wooden cited this poem as one of his favorites, and it seems fitting for this month, no?
Book Two Tickets to a Thing
Concert, play, movie, art fair, whatever. Buy them first, find a friend later. What’s better than a calendar full of culture?
Thank you for reading.
Love, Kara