Your awake moments
Oh, hi friends!
When have you felt the most *awake* this week? Like, truly awake and alert and like your best self?
Who were you with? What were you doing?
I just jotted down a little list of my moments.
I want to remember, so I can make sure to create more of them.
Photo by Hans-Peter Gauster on Unsplash
Sift your hands through the pieces. So much cardboard! So much opportunity.
‘One of my favorite things to say is, I’m almost done.’
— From “Tonight I’m Someone Else” a collection of essays by Chelsea Hodson
"There is no greater joy than being almost done. Not beginning, not slogging through the middle, and certainly not finishing. Compared with these other stages, the concept “almost done” is huge. It holds inside it so many states of being: relief, promise, risk, achievement. “I’m almost done,” I often tell myself as soon as I begin something — and in that moment, I truly believe it. “Almost” is a huge seeping mist of a word; it can fill a hairline crack or an entire continent, whatever you might need."
From the NYT Magazine's "New Sentences" column (h/t Danielle Friedman via Mom Friedman)
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I feel this so much. “Almost done” means you don’t yet have feedback that will affect how you feel about the ‘done’ thing. And you’re over the difficulty of doing. I want to remember to enjoy this feeling next time I’m almost done!
Here's Jake Gyllenhaal singing “Finishing the Hat” from “Sunday in the Park with George.”
BRB, off to finish some hats.
PS — Thank you all so much for your feedback from yesterday’s question about possible avenues for this newsletter. Your opinions were so diverse and insightful. (Some don’t mind sponsors! Some hate sponsors! Some want to read a book! Others do not!) I wasn’t going to ask because I don’t have my own thoughts squared away on the matter, but this exercise reminded me that asking for feedback always helps. Now I can move forward with fresh information. Stay tuned.
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Love, Kara