Just started reading: Living Life Backward by David Gibson 📚

Finished Reading: The 5 Resets: Rewire Your Brain and Body for Less Stress and More Resilience by Dr Aditi Nerurkar 📚

I got a kick out of this. Very similar to all of the song lyrics that have been misheard over time (i.e., “excuse me while I kiss this guy” or “there’s a bathroom on the right”). 🇫🇷🥓

Source: The Funnies #226

An article clipping titled, France is Bacon

Over two years after reflecting on the loneliness of convenience, I finally took action—I joined my local Y. It’s pricier than I’d hoped, but for now, it’s a cost I’m willing to pay for a reason to leave the house and be around actual people on a daily basis.

Finished Reading: All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker 📚

I’ve been tapped to cohost our org’s Digital and Design quarterly meeting in a few weeks. One of the responsibilities is to come up with an interactive, engaging activity to encourage participation and team connection. What have you experienced in a large virtual meeting setting that you enjoyed?

It’s a shame that it often takes a tragedy, trial, or hardship for us to recognize what’s truly unnecessary in our lives.

Quote from the book, A Paradise Built in Hell

I started supplementing a small dose of melatonin a few weeks ago and in addition to improving my sleep I’ve also noticed the increase in my dream activity. Every single night I’m having a myriad of dreams. Hopefully that’s an indication that I’m sleeping pretty deeply. 🛏️😴

Unfortunately I realized too late that the Haagen-Dazs ice cream container was 2.5 servings and not a single serving. I guess I just assumed. Oops. 😬 🍨

Annie Dillard:

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

This idea (and reality) has been one of the most challenging to impart to my kids as I’ve tried to equip them for their post-high school, young adult lives. They seem to be anti-planning/scheduling.