Ten.Nine Hundred & Seventy-Six

1. Moving slowly through the dark. The sound of the heat blowing through the vents.

2. Bird chatter.

3. I make a full pot so I can fill a thermos to take to work. An extra two cups would be god.

4. 7:36 and no coffee yet. Headache. Shoot. Got too wrapped up in dishes to remember to drink a little bit of coffee.

5. “If you are not tested, how will you know who you are?” - Isabel Allende

6. Dark and quiet.

7. I tell her that reading for pleasure is easiest when I institute regular baths. “Make it really hot,” I say, “so it will last a long time. I read almost 3 books in the month of January just from taking a bath every day.”

8. Kisira and Ali talking about the lack of historical context we have as Americans when we figuratively and literally consume cultures.

9. The light in the living room.

10. I don’t want to keep talking about work but I have so many questions for myself, so many questions for him to talk me through, piecing together the ways in which all of my experience helps me to see things in a different way.

11. I show him Sinek’s Golden Circle: Why, How, What.