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TUE Something happened today That I understand. Headwinds are real. You can be doing everything right and still move slowly. A cyclist knows that. A boat knows that. Anybody who has tried to carry a sheet of plywood across a yard on the wrong day knows that. The joke softened the fear without trying to […]

MON Something happened today Sometimes karma takes longer than normal to make it all the way around. Not because you are not worth it, but because it is battling headwinds. I loved the image immediately. Not because I had suddenly developed a scientific theory of karma involving prevailing winds. It was comforting because it took […]

SUN Something happened today I was searching for a picture of two truths that seemed to contradict each other. A spinning coin came to mind. When it is turning, I may catch flashes of heads and tails without having a stable view of either, yet both belong to the same object. I liked how simply […]

SAT Something happened today I went upstairs. And that may have been one of the most practical applications of everything I had been discovering. Mortality can sound very large. Death. Finite time. The whole coin. But mortality is also Tuesday night. It is the realization that ordinary time is nonrenewable. That does not mean every […]

FRI Something happened today I had been discovering that anger did not necessarily mean I was behaving badly or that my underlying concern was mistaken. Sometimes it was an important signal that something felt unfair, threatening or impossible to sustain. At other times it was amplified by fatigue or accumulated stress, and the immediate target […]

THU Something happened today Not another one. That sounds almost comically obvious. Of course you do not get the same date twice. We all know how calendars work. But knowing something and feeling it are not the same thing. I had work I could continue. I always have work I can continue. That may be […]

WED Something happened today But capability is not an obligation. If the larger business costs you evenings you like, mornings you like, freedom you like, time with people you love, and the ability to decide on Tuesday afternoon that you are going fishing, then what exactly did you gain? Money, maybe. Status, maybe. And maybe […]

TUE Something happened today I was working through a situation in which several people needed help, but not all of their needs could be met at once. My sympathies were strong, and I could feel how easily I was drawn toward the person whose suffering seemed most immediate. Yet the consequences of any decision would […]

MON Something happened today This came out of thinking about D2. In our little imaginary family, D2 has all the qualities you would need to build a serious business. He can find the right people. He can put the pieces together. He can see what matters and what does not. If he wanted to chase […]

SUN Something happened today Once I began moving between D1 and D2, I expected to find that one style suited certain questions better than the other. That was true often enough, but it wasn’t what interested me most. The real surprise was how an idea changed when it had to stand up to both kinds […]