My wife said she needed a “stiff drink”. Have not really ever made a martini but know the basics. So, I whipped up a pretty wicked martini that met her criteria and approval.
We may need another just to be sure it wasn’t a fluke.🍸
COVID booster and flu shot achieved!
The Aging Anarchist’s Cookbook – The New Yorker
In this new edition, you won’t learn how to sabotage an oil pipeline with homemade devices, but you will learn how to monkey-wrench your way to a good night’s sleep!
Got to have a special tour of Paisley Park today.
It used to be that I could handle chilly weather without a hat. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve found that to be less and less the case. My head has gotten very cold sensitive (despite still having a full head of hair). Good thing I love hats and have quite a few in different styles.
Owners and Stewards
There is a difference between those that own a house and those that live in a home. House owners see investment, profit. Home livers feel themselves as stewards, part of a continuum of caretakers for a place for a time in its history.
Not to say one or the other is bad. Nor am I saying they are mutually exclusive. Just to say that one idea/sense usually takes priority over the other and drives the choices one makes about a place.
For instance, if I chose to view the Hague House as simply an owner, it’d be done and back on the market right now. Instead, I’m restoring a home, a place with history and built to house generations (as many of the homes of that time were).
This drives the choices we’re making about it and the time we’re spending on it and, hopefully, we will sell it to folks that will have a similar sense (though we can’t control that, but we can hope). So the money and time become secondary to making it feel like a home. One where they will live for a long time, take appropriate care of, and possibly even hand it down to the next generation.
So, I guess the wrap up thought is this: Are you an owner or a steward? Not just with a house/home but with what you have in general? Because how you view/position yourself will ultimately drive your choices/actions.
Your regular reminder that when you don’t see me posting much here, it’s likely because I’m spending most of my time here.
I’m only a couple of chapters in to Four Thousand Weeks and it’s already the best time management book I’ve read.
Remember, one person’s something is always another person’s nothing (and vice versa).