Wisdom in a text message
Oh, hi friends!
When I don’t really have much to say or share, I know it’s time to turn to the people around me.
So here’s a gem found in a text thread with my friend Aransas from just a moment ago:
Here’s to doing scary things right this very second!
I hope that gives you the kick it gave me.
“When my attorney said, ‘Look, there are kids on the Cartoon Network making more than you’re offering this guy,’ this jerk business affairs attorney goes, ‘He probably deserves to make more, but we’re not going to pay him more, because guess what? He’s not worth more. There are 50 of him. He is 11 on the call sheet. That’s what that guy is and that’s all he’s ever going to be,’” Sheridan recalls. “That’s really when I quit [because] that’s how the business saw me: ‘Let’s replace him with someone cheaper.’ And I decided that I didn’t want to be 11 on the call sheet for the rest of my life.”
This story about how Taylor Sheridan became a writer (and created Yellowstone and its many spinoffs) keeps sticking in my head. (h/t brother Eric)
Sometimes other people can instigate a lightning-bolt moment: I decided that I didn’t want to be [x] for the rest of my life.
And then look what can happen next.
Photo by Chris on Unsplash
Day Three of the Four-Gosling Streak
Hey, look, more pages were written yesterday! Somehow!
Maybe the secret to work isn’t a four-day work week, but a four-day gosling streak?
Let’s keep it going and do day three…
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Thanks, as always, for reading.
Love, Kara