Do you have stacks on stacks
Oh, hi friends!
I just placed a stack of random papers onto a different stack of random papers.
It’s all deadly boring — invoices, blank postcards, a coupon to a meal delivery service, old recipes, an instruction guide for headphones.
It would take three minutes to sort, shred, or deal with it all.
But it’s so much easier to stack the stacks rather than look at the stacks.
Until, you know, something breaks you.
A guest is coming over and you don’t want to have a messy house, you remember there’s one urgent thing in the stack of stacks, so you dig for it and end up tossing the rest of it.
These stacks of stacks happen everywhere — your inbox, your desk, your mail pile, your brain.
But choose the top item, and I bet you’ll keep going.
“The conditions are very clear: I won’t embark on a project if there’s the remotest possibility that anybody is going to interfere, or want to know what it is, or suggest it has got the wrong ending, or recast stars and all that stuff. We have to be left to do what artists do, what novelists do and painters do, and poets and sculptors and musicians do — which is to go into their space and explore, and discover what the piece is by interacting with the material and arriving at it.”
Mike Leigh has a vision and boy, does he stick to it.
What conditions do you have before you embark on a project?
Traveling Sometime in the Next, Oh, Five Years?
Then maybe you need to check out my new favorite site, Turbli.
This genius little site lets you know whether your next flight is going to experience turbulence (light, moderate, or strong!) and when it will happen. This is…strangely comforting?!
I never used to be a nervous flier but now, well, I don’t like the bumps. And this site was freakishly accurate regarding my flight, which had a solid bumpy hour.
But because I saw this forecast before I boarded, I anticipated the less-than-smooth experience, and all was well. Ahh, the power of data!
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Thanks, as always, for reading.
Love, Kara