Blessed be the unfolding. Some beautiful poetry to start your morning.
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Schools were canceled due to snow today and have been preemptively cancels due to dangerous cold the next two days. When Minnesota cancels anything due to cold or snow you know it’s gotta be really bad.
Derek Sivers on the benefits of a daily diary and topic journals:
You can’t trust distant memories. But you can trust your daily diary. It’s the best indicator to your future self (and maybe descendants) of what was really going on in your life at this time.
Truth. I also love his idea for a Thoughts On journal:
For each subject that you might have ongoing thoughts about, start a separate “Thoughts On” journal. Whenever you have some thoughts on this subject, open up that file, write today’s date, then start writing.
Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes.
Chris Wilson on using paper like Da Vinci. Make a beautiful mess.
If blogs are your thing (They are certainly mine!), you can now also see my daily outfit posts on my new site, Daily Thread.
I’ve heard that the kindle edition of my book, Enough, is free right now for Amazon Prime members
Also, if you have Amazon Prime and don’t have my book, it could help.
“Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning, and the rest of the day will take care of itself.”
— Elbert Hubbard
Don’t concern yourself with the what-if.
Focus instead on the what-now.
“I dont get what the big deal is. They’re still the same person. They just look a little different. Like, more comfortable. Why would people have a problem with that?”
— Beatrix, age 10, discussing trans folks.
Related: You can vote for her for President in 25 years.