Health, family, focus

Being up north and managing a fire, playing with children, reading a book I can feel my mind opening up into a wider way of thinking. Better ideas, bigger perspectives, interesting plans. In the moment of idleness a lot of things seem possible.

I will try to implement these ideas. But now that we've been driving home over the course of three days, also a kind of meditative state, I know realistically that I cannot land all of the ideas. I cannot implement all the improvements to life I'm thinking of. I can't be the person I imagined. Not fully. There are constraints. I'll run out of energy, focus, I'll forget some of what I intended. But the hope is that some of the good thinking sticks around. That some experiments pan out. That I manage to land one new system of habit.

Because I want to be better. I want to feel better. And the mind at work is kind of shit at thinking those thoughts. The mind at idle is good at it but is terrible at realism.+

I hope you have some restful moments this summer. I have.

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