Watching: Documentary on Netflix called America’s Sweethearts: The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. Weirdly compelling. The DCC fascinates me because it’s like a cult. Why are these women so willing to devote their whole lives to this organization, even though they get paid about what a worker at Chipotle gets paid? I kept waiting for one of … Continue reading Inspired By In October 2024
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Inspired By In August 2024
I am bored. This feels shameful to admit. My mother always said, “Only the boring are bored,” whenever I complained of boredom as a kid. It was a cut. It shattered my image of myself as a fascinating child, full of ideas and potential. Boredom feels akin to being sick, or having some shameful condition like crabs. It feels like a personal hygiene issue that I must take care of, stat.
Inspired By: Summer 2024
I haven’t done one of these lists in a few months, so maybe it’s time to backtrack and highlight what I’ve been thinking about, reading, listening to, and obsessing about. CAPSULE WARDROBE My capsule wardrobe for Spring and Summer is all done and I am so happy with how it turned out. I always have … Continue reading Inspired By: Summer 2024
Inspired By In March 2024
This technique assigns a job to every hour of the day. I learned it from Cal Newport. And here’s what freaks me out every time I do it: I see exactly where my time goes—in graphical time blocks of reality, drawn on paper.
Inspired By In February 2024
Tomorrow is the 20th Anniversary of the opening of Main Street Yoga. I have spent the past few days trying to draft a letter to my mailing list, struggling to express what their support has meant to me all these years.
Inspired By In January 2024
I watched two movies this month: My Dinner with Andre(I watched it on MAX), which I watch every January, some years siding with Andre, other years with Wally, and using the character I feel more aligned with as a predictor for the year ahead.