Learned: Letting go can feel so good, like a freedom you never knew you could have. A person of color can’t not experience me as a white person until after they get to know and trust me, but I can and do see them as a regular person, free of the trappings of what they look like, but get that’s part of what they might need me to not say. Said another way, I say I can experience a person as a person, but there is no need for me to say it like that if it might not land how I want it to. When people show up, deep down, they want to love whatever they get from having shown up. My friend FL in Sabastapol wants to get into high-finance for the canna industry.
3. Making my life about inclusivity. Wondering how to write about inclusivity in a way that creates enrollment in the possibility of people seeing one-another as who they are, past the regular qualities of skin, teeth, and hair. Ice. 3.
Seems: Like this year’s hurricanes are stronger than ever and humanity is gonna get mowed down by Irma. Like I’m not the man I used to be, or maybe I should say not the skilled handy worker-bee that I once was. Like I can get better sleep, and better skin, if I leave home. Like messes are the enemy.
Habit(s): I’m thinking the strongest new habit that I have from the “New Habits” category is copying and pasting habits I was working on in the past. I look forward to developing myself in new ways but am not committed to publishing something that is no longer happening. Nice try! My actual new habits include eating dark chocolate daily.
Accomplished: 141 was the final count for gathering. Gave notice of retirement from being the registrar. Enrolled and registered replacement. Lunch with RG today, a new connection!
Thinking about: Walking with Christopher and Lamont at 8:00 a.m. Cleaner living. Cleaning the very fragrant golden milk spill from the carpet next to my bed. How f’d up the kitchen wall is after I prepped it to mount floating shelf.
Q: Repeated: What makes it beautiful when it’s really hot out? (extended version, not just “AC”)
My Answer: The only true answer is AC, but also can include iced drinks, ice cream, shade, breeze, night-time, etc…
AudioVideo: https://youtu.be/H846A-eN89c
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