Jan 6th 2020
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The first week of 2020 and my desk’s skattered with books and clippings, notepads and rulers and planners, plant lists, PT exercises, stamps and a stack of places to call. I’ve got one stack of books about screenwriting, another about raising children and the other about plants and gardens and landscaping. And there are a stack of books at the library about timber framing just waiting for me.
I don’t see my future self at the computer. Never do when I imagine my life. But I know they’re there. In fact technology is my easiest connection to the outside world of society in general and I think of all of you and self. Not my self but the concept of self. And I wonder how many different categories our life stories could fit in. You know, our life stories, the whole overall view of how you live your life. That existential idea that is often frightening to think about. Who will you be and who do you want to be?
I take a sip of tea and watch a squirrel outside my window. Everyone keeps saying, “It’s spring!” But all I can do is shake my head. I see life as seasons. Maybe I have a deeper connection to it because I work with plants but…
The computer nudges me with a, “Bleep.” Breaks my chain of thought.
...But, It’s not spring, it’s the first week of January, winter has barely begun, despite the nice days we’ve been having.
My mind drops into a story idea but i have to step away from it. I have a million and a half ideas and they’re oppressive. Choose one and do that one, that’s what I need to do this year. One of those “New Year’s Resolutions” I suppose. I remember reading somewhere once that willpower is a muscle that must be trained.
It’s an amazing thing to focus
To find something you can really get lost in
To melt away from the here and now
Into that idea
That, what do they call it?
Yeah, Flow.
May, June, July, August, Sept, Oct, Nov, Dec, and January
We’ve been in our new home for about, well, were at the beginning of our 9th month. It usually takes me about that long to really settle into a place. And we’ve been working hard to make it our own. The Flippers who got to the house before us had a good vision for the place and so I’m using that as our base. There’s been:
The Fence Project,
The Sliding Glass Door Project,
Irrigation,
Solar,
Orchard,
and Pantry (Still in Progress) Projects too.
And we tore out that wall to the kitchen and made it a bar.
I’ve got this book in the lineup right now that is about being roommates with the guy who might actually be Satoshi Nakamoto. But the character of Satoshi is based off my husband. He’d talk your ear off about Bitcoin. “You could be like a digital squirrel if you wanted, mousing it away in different wallets here and there. Trezor, or Cold Card, or Electrum or God knows there are so many wallets.” My favorite is still the tangibility of paper.
“It’s too volatile,” is what I usually hear and I picture it as a rollercoaster it’s made to be scary but it’s not supposed to be dangerous.
I like the analogy. I spin it around for a minute looking at it from multiple angles until I’m satisfied.
Are you satisfied?
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