What’s working: I’m not sure if this podcast has been mentioned here before since I definitely found it through Carrot Quinn, but I’ve been enjoying episodes of Live Like the World is Dying. I’ve been intrigued by natural navigation and just becoming more informed about patterns in nature and local ecology. It feels both grounding and collapse-relevant. If anyone has seen the office, do you remember that scene where Michael asks Dwight why he keeps a journal and he says, “To keep secrets from my computer”? Well I finally gave up the idea that I would perfectly and aesthetically track things in some app and spent all of January tracking things I was curious about in a little notebook. Very scrappy, very imperfect, so satisfying. I graphed my weight (only for the main take away to be that gluten does in fact do a thing to my insides) and my sleep. I found out I averaged 73 minutes a day on Instagram. I wrote down some fun facts. I made a list of my accomplishments for the month. I made goals for February. I’m trying to be more thoughtful about the data I’m putting out into the world and how I’m backing up information. In an online community I’m a part of, someone talked about how she dutifully had a canned food supply. It burned up with her house in a wild fire. I remind myself that there is no perfect preparation to keep us safe from every possible future. All we do is our best. Thanks, as always, for your shares and the opportunity for reflection.
What’s working: I’m not sure if this podcast has been mentioned here before since I definitely found it through Carrot Quinn, but I’ve been enjoying episodes of Live Like the World is Dying. I’ve been intrigued by natural navigation and just becoming more informed about patterns in nature and local ecology. It feels both grounding and collapse-relevant. If anyone has seen the office, do you remember that scene where Michael asks Dwight why he keeps a journal and he says, “To keep secrets from my computer”? Well I finally gave up the idea that I would perfectly and aesthetically track things in some app and spent all of January tracking things I was curious about in a little notebook. Very scrappy, very imperfect, so satisfying. I graphed my weight (only for the main take away to be that gluten does in fact do a thing to my insides) and my sleep. I found out I averaged 73 minutes a day on Instagram. I wrote down some fun facts. I made a list of my accomplishments for the month. I made goals for February. I’m trying to be more thoughtful about the data I’m putting out into the world and how I’m backing up information. In an online community I’m a part of, someone talked about how she dutifully had a canned food supply. It burned up with her house in a wild fire. I remind myself that there is no perfect preparation to keep us safe from every possible future. All we do is our best. Thanks, as always, for your shares and the opportunity for reflection.