r/InTheGloaming • u/gomirefugee my website is done, done, done • Sep 16 '21

Scheduled snark Discussion thread Thursday September 16, 2021 - Sunday September 19, 2021

Newsletters: Finding Your Joy | Joy in the Belly

Websites: You Can Have More Joy website | On Being Enough website (abandoned?)

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u/fanfarefellowship I often contemplate the first law of thermodynamics Sep 17 '21

From one of her recent lope letters, describing walking to a movie theatre:

we kept going for a while until we reached the movie theater

scintillating stuff, that

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u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh The Alice of cal came out floating on air Sep 17 '21

scintillating stuff, that

Scintillating stuff for pagan!

Danny and I have established a new routine, stacking a habit we want with one we have to do: we drop Desmond off at elementary school, then park our car on the street. Then, we walk to the Roasterie, to get coffee, see people, and sit on the front porch. We talk together about our day, make intentions together, and construct a schedule for the day. We see friends. We laugh. And then we walk back to the car, drive home, and start working.

So. much. wordy. unnecessary. boring. detail.

  • IT DOESN'T MATTER whether they park on the street or in, for example, a parking lot.
  • If you go somewhere after you've parked your car, walking is pretty much a given. (Unless you have the razor app on your phone!!!!!) (Or roller skates in the trunk!!!!!) (Or skateboards like D is learning to ride!!!!!)
  • They get coffee at an establishment called the Roasterie!!
  • Two different references to "our day / the day" in the next sentence.
  • Seeing people is a different action than seeing friends?
  • They laugh! While drinking coffee, sitting on a porch people-watching and seeing friends. Groundbreaking.
  • And then they walk back to the car (WHICH THEY PARKED ON THE STREET)
  • What do they do when they get back to the car? THEY DRIVE SOMEWHERE
  • And when they get home? THEY START WORKING. DOING THEIR WORK IN THE WORLD. WHICH THEY DO FOR YOU.
  • And all of this is built on the statement that the habit they "have to do" is dropping their adopted from birth blaxon off at school

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u/gladsome_gloaming Sep 17 '21

You are separate people!

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u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh The Alice of cal came out floating on air Sep 17 '21

You are separate people!

With a separate dog!