Clear up the ambiguity
Oh, hi friends!
Are you letting ambiguity stop you from taking action, making a decision, or moving forward?
A few ways to clear up ambiguity:
Think of questions to ask the people involved. Ask them.
Find other people who have done this before. Ask them questions, too.
Google how to do it.
Choose A. Or choose B. You won’t know the result of the choice you didn’t make.
Have your pet decide. Write both options on notecards and let their paws choose the path.
If you’re living in a gray area, don’t extrapolate. Investigate.
Clear up that ambiguity — and make your move.
“There is peace even in the storm.”
— Van Gogh (h/t Robby Macdonald)
Turns out this is from a letter Vincent wrote to his brother, Theo, which all happen to be online and annotated. I could read this for hours? Here’s a description Van Gogh wrote in another letter, to Paul Gaugin:
“A last try – a night sky with a moon without brightness, the slender crescent barely emerging from the opaque projected shadow of the earth – a star with exaggerated brightness, if you like, a soft brightness of pink and green in the ultramarine sky where clouds run. Below, a road bordered by tall yellow canes behind which are the blue low Alpilles, an old inn with orange lighted windows and a very tall cypress, very straight, very dark.”
Turns out he can describe his own art better than we can.
Photo by Matthew Henry on Unsplash
We All Make Mistakes
To anyone who wanted to read the small business profile of the ice cream shop in Brooklyn which I shared yesterday, I'm sorry! The link was broken. And it reminded me that, well, sometimes links break. Sometimes bigger things break, too. It's usually not the end of the world. Maybe a few people will notice your mistake — that's OK! That means someone is watching, and someone cares.
And you can fix it, of course. You can fix almost anything.
So please don't keep berating yourself over your own broken links, whatever they may be.
(Oh! And here's the story!)
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Thanks, as always, for reading.
Love, Kara