A couple dear friends of mine (what up, Melissa and Alene!) sent me a card this week with a quote on the front that said the following:
 

"Not knowing when the dawn would come, I opened every door."
 

I loved it instantly. Reading it aloud to my companions at the moment elicited the following reactions: "Oh, huh. Interesting," and "I have no idea what that's supposed to mean, but it sure sounds deep!" So, clearly, ymmv.

Regardless, it hit home for me, and it also spoke to a little piece of why I'm starting this TinyLetter (yay!): I want to open all the doors. I want to shout out of my windows. I want to tell people about the things I like, and the things I'm working on, and the things I think they should hear about, and all the things that connect us as breathing, babbling humans on this tiny blue marble in space. And I want to let things in, too- the light, the air, the ideas, the conversation. For an introvert (and I am), I really crave that personal connection. 

Inspiration credit for this endeavor goes to the ever-lovely Margo, on account of her exceptional and ongoing Three Weeks tinyletter- if you haven't already signed up for it, do it now. I'll wait. 

Ready? Let's open some doors!
 

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Current Wikipedia Rabbit Hole:

I'm kind of obsessed with pre-history. History is all well and good, don't get me wrong, but I find the bits before we started writing things down way more interesting, for whatever reason. Ergo, our first Wikipedia Rabbit Hole is brought to you by my deep and abiding love for the mysterious Doggerland, home of Europeans for several millennia between about 16,000 BCE to as late as 5,000 BCE. Call it ancestral memory or call it sheer nerdiness as you please, but I've been working on a concept album about Doggerland for years. Bonus reading: the Storegga Slides, the Weald-Artois Anticline.
 

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Dreamlights Radio has been chugging along for nigh unto seven years now, and in the next two weeks I've got a pair of shows all about the myriad uses of the word "ain't"- there are some themes, to be sure: Ain't Nobody's Business; Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby; You Ain't Woman Enough To Take My Man. You get the picture. Listen live on www.party934.com, Thursday mornings at 7 am Pacific time! 
 

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I got into bullet journaling (#bujo) a couple years ago, and I've been slowly refining my practice. If you're not familiar with it, bullet journaling is basically a stylized note-taking system that started simple and has expanded to occupy the markers and sticker collections of students and stay-at-home moms everywhere. It can be useful, but it can also become a tremendous timesuck. When I got into it, I told myself that I would give it a try, keep what worked, and chuck anything that didn't. This was some good foresight on my part, because one of the biggest things I've run into is that I can't do daily sections, which it turns out are one of the main underpinngings of how you "should" do bullet journaling. They stress me out! My days vary! I don't like being tied to having to commit to certain things on certain days or to having to update my bujo every day. So, the weekly layout is where I live. That said, I've struggled to find a weekly layout that really works for me. I've been through a few different iterations, and one of the things I've discovered is that I really need all my days to be viewable in one... stripe? I don't like having the days broken up over pages. But, I just started bullet journal #4, and I'm trying out a new weekly format. It feels good so far! 
What do you think?
 

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I've got a trip coming up in June, and I'm starting to get excited about it (except for that bit where I have to get on a plane)! We're going to Alaska to visit family, and since K has never been, we're going to fly into Anchorage and drive up and back from Fairbanks so we can see Denali and some glaciers and as many moose as possible. I'm also planning an epic Marian Call playlist, because obviously, and it will start with a song of hers that I really love a lot: Anchorage. If you're not familiar, give it a listen.
 

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Sportsball

Last night, I learned to do assisted cartwheels/sidestar, both as a base and a flier (click for YouTube link):