One @#$%ing thing
How is it possible to begin something new? How is it possible to turn that something new into a practice?
I was reflecting on the words of Anand Giridharadas on this morning on which we woke up to learn that TFP* had won the election of 2024.
[T]hese will be the rebuilding years. Sports teams have such years when they lose and lose badly. And there is a kind of freedom in the rebuilding year. You know it’s a rebuilding year, so there is a certain amount of space and time. You’re not expected to turn around and win the title, because you acknowledge that you’re broken. Your work is not winning, not at first. It is rebuilding to put yourself in a condition such that you might win again.
So perhaps my own rebuilding begins here.**
One @#$%ing thing at a time.
*This… former president
**(on Buttondown, not Substack)