Your days are cotton, not stone
Oh, hi friends!
I figured something out yesterday.
I don’t know, maybe this isn’t new for you, but it was for me.
Ready?
You can turn your day around at any time.
Oversleep and immediately plunge yourself into a frenzied morning? It’s…still morning. You have the entire day in which to productively fiddle-fart around and make up the 20 minutes you lost.
Got some bad work news over email? It’s…one email. It…doesn’t have to dictate your entire day. It’s one email.
Cranky because…it’s January? Or your Tinder boo didn’t text you back? Or because you forgot to buy toilet paper on your way home from work again? It’s…temporary.
It’s all temporary.
Changeable.
Mercurial in the best possible way.
“As a writer, I’m trying to pay attention to the stuff the people aren’t paying attention to. I’m trying to monitor my own soul as carefully as I can and find ways to express what I find there.”
So I’ve never actually finished a Jonathan Franzen book. (Is that an embarrassing confession? I don't care! I will not be book-shamed.) But I liked his insights in Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process.
During these January work days, I've been diving into the new Francis and the Lights album. The band put the entire new album on YouTube, because music artists don't make money on selling their songs anymore. So. Buy a concert ticket if you can! (h/t Carl Zurhorst who turned me on to the band months ago!) Here's their Spotify, too.
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Thanks, as always, for reading.
Love, Kara