Learned: That Hugh Heffner was still alive until just recently. The Dolores Huerta is 87, still alive and a documentary of her life has been made called, “Dolores.” “Carnival of Souls” is a 1962 American horror film starring Candace Hilligoss. Not usually my kind of thing, but I like the drawings of Nicolas de Crécy.
3. Automatic anything. October being the month of creepy. The end of a game no matter the result. 3.
Seems: Like I can make changing my mind, taking the easy way out or reconsidering a weakness and not a strength. Like doing the “right” thing can seem like the wrong thing. Like my attention span is in jeopardy if I have phone or laptop within reach.
New Habit(s): Breathe. Get better at sleeping. Covertly relate to self as a wizardly shaman instilled with untapped compassion for those who have yet to go through the spaces you’ve gone through to achieve what you’ve achieved. Keep it brief and to-the-point. No make-wrong – Recreate!
Accomplished: Recently? Binge watched “The Strain.” Looked at how I operate and chose to save a large reactivating program for a later date. Talked myself down from a PTSD reaction to hurricane relief efforts by tweeting to POTUS.
Thinking about: the 20 pounds that came back, or, the new 20 pounds. Actually lifting things with my arms. The patience required when reading a book that isn’t available as an audiobook. How we’ll need many new lawmakers to change the way the U.S. is turning out.
Q: Is it important to do impactful, fulfilling work, or is it enough to simply be and take occasional action?
My answer: I feel a deep need to sign up for large causes that may be confronting. I am not sure if it’s for the rush of making a difference or if it is truly selfless, possibly a combination. I like things to work. I can see how they might. I also like to witness when people feel uplifted. An occasional action is better than nothing. I still have my eye on looming larger – could be from those leadership classes, I feel like I’m wasting them if I don’t show up large.
Video: https://youtu.be/Q8XcAW3s-gg
Reading: “Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America” by Ibram X. Kendi, and “A Wall Between” by Anne Braden