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Can’t wait.

Love this!

Every bookshelf tells a story. You can’t build one in a day or even a week… it’s a lifetime of collected changes. On the shelf over there I see an Isaac Asimov collection I bought when I was 12, right next to a yet-to-be-published galley by a friend of mine. Each of them changed my life.

If I visit someone’s home for the first time, and there is a bookshelf, I always make a point to peruse it. You can tell a lot about a person based on what books are there.

The longer I sat there, the more I discovered that just the breeze could bring me into the right here and now. I pressed the warm mug against my collarbone, and stared at the mountains, which were grey-blue in the distance. The wind whipped and bent. The aspen and birch leaves, now more yellow than green, shimmied and shook. After I looked long enough, I began to connect sound with space. I could see which mosquito circled where, which gust hit which leaves, which branches creaked with which breeze. Soon, I could see it, right there in my front-yard: the world alive with so much dance.

Beautifully written. As I prepare to spend my upcoming birthday alone in a cabin in the woods, I find such things even more fascinating.

We believe Work Can Wait is an important notion. 9pm on Friday night is not work time. 6am on Wednesday morning is not work time. It may be for you, but it’s not for me. And I don’t want it to be work time for my employees either.

One of the many reasons I respect 37 Signals/Basecamp so much as a company.

This combination app and service automatically curates 100 of your most recent photos, then has you upload them once a month. When they’re received, they’re printed into a customized, high-quality 7" x 10" magazine with the date displayed prominently for easy sorting.

This is a really neat idea.

Taking that mundane task and putting effort into it centres you. It brings you into the moment where you can be calm and enjoy the process instead of automating it.

Some great thoughts here.

Good advice.

Where to start… we moved into our fixer-upper home two years ago and we’re finally getting around to the kitchen renovation. Eddie is DIY (enough) and saving us some money. It’s cute.
During the demolition, we found this safe in the floor – the safe revealed itself when we tore down the kitchen island.
To my knowledge, our home has had 6 previous owners – A hunch the safe didn’t belong to the last owners who seemed to like cats and smoking.

Now this is cool.