A moment to turn around your week
Oh, hi friends!
Who can you listen to today?
I ask this because I had a conversation this week that seemed to turn my week around. A friend told me about a big career change they were thinking of making and asked if I might be able to help with something down the line.
But the big shift, I later realized, came from listening and hearing how excited they were. What this would mean. How they’d been making plans.
And that made me excited about possibilities, too. For them. For myself. And for anyone who’s been quietly plotting and inching toward something new this year.
So who can you listen to today?
And how might they change your life?
“She understood there was probably nothing left of her house, but she couldn’t shake one idea: that a gold and diamond ring might have survived. She kept picturing it buried in the rubble, still intact. Then she got a text from Logan Vaughn, a self-styled gun broker and day trader who also did handyman jobs around her house. He had a metal detector, he wrote, and would gladly sweep the area for her to help search for any valuables. When he called a few days later, urging her to get ahead of the looters, she told him about the ring.”
I read this National Geographic story written by my friend Nina Strochlic back in September and have thought about it often. Shortly after a fire in the southern town of Talent, Oregon, Libby Dimick returned to the ruins of her home in the hopes of finding find her great-grandmother's diamond ring and give her cats a proper burial. What happens feels like a little miracle — a bright spot where there seemed to be none.
SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW
Here I am yesterday in Central Park after our first snow day of the season (and before I ran a mile in my snow boots — the streak continues, I am crazy?). Everyone was posting photos and video: snow on their fire escapes, snow being eaten by dogs, snow falling outside their windows. It was so wholesome and pleasant! It felt like we all agreed on something — this is, very simply, nice. More snow please!
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Thanks, as always, for reading.
Love, Kara