Ten.One Thousand & Twenty-Five

1. Warm. Too warm. I forgot about this.

2. If I get a weighted blanket will I still be too hot? Do I need a light summer blanket? Must find a solution.

3. Shredded wheat and coffee before the last day of lecture. I double-check the campaigns for work and then settle in.

4. Today I feel fully present, in more ways than one. “Everything is a haiku.”

5. Where will I uncover the epiphanies? The epiphanies are in everything.

6. I think I have a decent start here. I can do this.

7. All the notifications telling me that my events have been cancelled. I tell her that this is a time of surrender. And then I wonder how often “surrender” is confused with “giving up.” It is not giving up but arriving at some kind of clarity about which battles are worth fighting. I no longer and fighting for certainty. I can only surrender to uncertainty and then make the next best choice based on the information immediately at hand.

8. They eat all the leftover croutons.

9. This one, this one also has a candied cherry quality but the acidity is still high and left a little bit of residual sugar to mitigate the bitterness. Best served very chilled when it’s 90 degrees outside.

10. He chuckles. “You did that by propping your phone up on a water bottle?” I just needed to create.