Alisha Sommer | Essentials for Living

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Ten.One Thousand, Two Hundred & Eight

  1. Sunday! The deadline was noon on Sunday! Today is Monday! 3:58 am.

  2. She asks me if I’m okay and I tell her that I completely blew a deadline and just had to get straight to work. I never miss a deadline. He will tell me that I should have put it in my phone.

  3. It will be a long day.

  4. Maybe he is right.

  5. It is snowing in Flagstaff so we’re back to taking the more southerly route back home. Only two full days left.

  6. Intention for the rest of the day: Focus. Reduce distraction.

  7. “I guess there’s gonna be some problems tonight.”

  8. Why did he park so far away from the store? Oh well, I guess I’ll just get my steps in.

  9. The thing about going away is that your perspective shifts in surprising ways. And you don’t even have to go away, you just have to create space and time to quiet the mind, ask better questions of yourself.

  10. Julienne slowly. Jazz playing softly. So much prep, but it will be worth it.