You have options
Oh, hi friends!
I was feeling on the fence about a few things on my calendar in the coming months (since now we all have calendars again), but then had the realization today: I could just remove them.
Not commit the time, avoid the pre-going dread, and simply…make them vanish. (These are completely optional events, of course, not work-related or involving friends or loaded with meaning.) There is another choice. Why walk into something you know you don’t want to do?
It reminded me of a friend whose sublet was going to end in a couple months. He was going to resign the lease for another year because that was the easiest choice, despite him not liking the situation or roommates. But then he thought, “Oh, what if I didn’t stay?”
Recognizing that was an option kicked off a string of new decisions and led to renting his own studio apartment a few blocks from his current place. It all worked out.
Options.
"Magawa's performance has been unbeaten, and I have been proud to work side-by-side with him.”
FYI, Magawa is a seven-year-old African giant pouched rat who has sniffed out 71 landmines in Cambodia. The hero rat is now retiring due to his advanced age. I love Magawa!
A Charley a Day
Colin and I are on a little vacation in upstate New York and our Airbnb has art by a local artist named Lora Shelley (you can see her paintings and very cute stoneware here!).
This is a video about a project she completed a few years ago: she painted her cat Charley every day for 365 days. Such a simple and sweet idea, and inspiring to see the differences in each painting. The same action repeated every day doesn’t lead to the same creative result — and that’s a good thing.
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Thanks, as always, for reading.
Love, Kara