by Patrick Rhone
It’s been quiet around here lately. Mainly because I’ve been running around tackling projects small and large at our various properties. From small repairs to winterizing to remodels. Interior and exterior. Running between all four places most days. Here’s just a small sampling in photos…
It’s October 1st which means three things:
More walking. Less talking.
We are all many things. We all do many things. We will do many more things throughout our lives. Yet, when we are gone, most will primarily remember only one of them. They will pick from the lot and remember you as that. What they pick will, in their mind at least, be all that you are. Therefore, it is our job to ask ourselves with all the things we allow ourselves to do, with each and every one, “Is this something I want to be remembered for?”
This is why it is important to make “No” your default response to most things. Those things that seem like great ideas should get a “maybe” until they earn a solid answer one way or the other. But “yes” should only be given to those things that, if you were gone tomorrow, you wouldn’t mind being remembered for.
(P.S. I posted this before somewhere a long time ago but I couldn’t find it so I’m posting it here again so that I can find it if I’m ever looking for it again)
Some Postpartum Favorites – Baby Not Required – Jack Cheng
I didn’t learn it this way, and friends I’ve talked to say they didn’t either. When as schoolkids we were taught the three R’s of Reduce/Reuse/Recycle, we were not taught that they’re an order of operations. A flow chart. You first look to reduce, to not need the thing at all. Only when forgoing is out of the question do you look to borrow, barter, repurpose, or buy secondhand. And only once that’s exhausted do you pick up something new-but-recyclable.
New to me as well. What we believe in.
One of my favorite things is walking around my neighborhood. Especially with my wife. We live in such a lovely place with beautiful homes and wonderful neighbors. All the shops and restaurants are great too. Gratitude overload every time.
Repaired the buttons on my $10 Time Machine in the hopes that preparing my wardrobe for colder weather will actually hasten the commencement of said weather
Folksy.
Episode 545: Importance | PM Talks S1:E9 – Mike Vardy
In this latest episode of our monthly series, PM Talks, Patrick Rhone and I further explore the delicate balance between urgency and – more notably this time around – importance in our lives. We explore how navigating these two forces impacts everything from birthday parties to home renovations and even our evolving relationship with AI.
I don’t promote these enough but I really enjoy these monthly talks with Mike. Give this one a listen.
Coming home | A Working Library
While one of the reasons oft declared for using POSSE is the ability to own your content, I’m less interested in ownership than I am in context. Writing on my own site has very different affordances: I’m not typing into a little box, but writing in a text file. I’m not surrounded by other people’s thinking, but located within my own body of work.
this whole thing is worth a read. Mandy is such a wonderful writer and thinker.