Making room for what’s important
Oh, hi friends!
I’m sorry about the sporadic nature of the newsletters this week. (Sorry is a weird word to use, but I can't find a better one!) Our cat, Suzy, was in the cat hospital (that’s what I like to call it…) for a week having emergency surgery and now she’s back home and we are giving her a lot of love, care, and blended cat food and meds in her temporary feeding tube before she’s eating on her own. (Colin is very good at this, of course.)
But this has also reminded me of what happens when your priorities shift — and how you can — and always do — adjust.
Think about the biggest routine shift that happened to you in the last year. At first, it probably seemed wild (work from home?? new job???? Zoom homeschool?????). Yet after awhile, even if it never feels completely easy, you arrive at some kind of ease or, at least, routine. What seemed foreign before is now second nature.
And that’s something to remember at the start of any change. What seems completely removed from your current reality will one day feel, in some ways, normal.
Because we are incredibly adaptable creatures.
Remember that.
“Something I haven’t told anyone else is, for the past six years whenever I’ve written a poem that I knew was going to be public or performed, I told myself, write the Inauguration poem. And what that meant for me is not necessarily write a poem that’s about a President. It was: write a poem that is worthy of a new chapter in the country. In everything you write, write something that is brave enough to be hopeful. In everything that you write, write something that is larger than yourself. I don’t think I would have been able to write that Inauguration poem if I hadn’t lived every day of my life as if that was the place I was going to get.”
Well, this entire conversation between Amanda Gorman and Michelle Obama in Time is wonderful. A must-read on creativity and optimism.
Go Away, Phone
Instead of charging my phone at night, I’ve been charging it during the day in a cabinet that has a power outlet and, more importantly, a door. This basically locks it up, and frees up my mind from attending to it constantly while it sits on my desk. It feels great!! I mean, really, truly, great.
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Thanks, as always, for reading.
Love, Kara