Sitting at my desk at 7am feels both better than being grumpy at home but also, overall, worse.
Sitting at my desk at 7am feels both better than being grumpy at home but also, overall, worse.
Now is now, it can never be anything else wrote Laura Ingalls Wilder. It’s all we have. We should never wish a minute of it away. Not even when we’re tired, when we’re excited about what’s next, when we’re frustrated with how things are going. We never get this moment back. When you find yourself rushing, remind yourself, as we’ve said, where you are rushing towards. And remember that someday you would do anything to get back here to this very thing you are wishing away.
You need to honor work by not working. You need to not be all about business.
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Elise was lucky enough to do this yesterday! 🪂
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What kids actually want is you. What kids actually need is Dad. As Dear Abby quite brilliantly put it in a column back in the 1950s, “If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.”
Hasn’t rained in weeks. First day of school, it’s tipping it down.
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Working up to a G-Shock!
I know I should read more but struggling to get into the right headspace to do so. Feel like I’m only capable of browsing.
The hallmark of a resilient, productive and sustainable culture is that disagreements aren’t risky.
Should have gone to bed earlier.
We’re often presented with an image of parenting that is a bit too perfect. Like a Norman Rockwell scene preserved in a snowglobe.
But all too often parents wake up to realize they were cast in a reality show without their permission. The kids cause more problems in 4 minutes than I could get into in 4 years. You wonder if your genetics have spawned an unholy chimera of you and you partner’s worst traits. It gets to a point where you wake up to the sounds of screams. Not the kid’s screams. Yours.
I liked this, about how to support your kids to be more helpful and to consider yours and their emotions. I’m still chuckling at this quote from the intro though! Source: Ancient Traditions Reveal 2 Rituals That Will Make You An Awesome Parent - Barking Up The Wrong Tree
I thought that the whole city I live in, a city of a few million people, needs a COVID test tomorrow was the most depressing thing today. (It’s the implications of not being able to leave China…) ThenI read about Shifting Baseline Syndrome (SBS) and that was worse.
It’s taken 40 years but great peaches are something else right? 🍑 Never too late.
Yumo sprayed me with the plant sprayer thing at 6:15am. An auspicious start to the last day of the summer holidays.
I had a headache, just a dull ache. I think it’s related to being stressed about going back to work on Monday after the summer holiday. Combined with the kids being themselves and me losing my patience twice yesterday that I’ve been beating myself up over. Maybe it’s the heat.
So, we went for massages this morning. I talked Lyra into coming since my confidence in my Chinese and my general anxiety over interacting with people always drops like a stone when I’m stressed.
A friend recommended the place a year or so back. From the outside it does not look like somewhere you should go. A small boxed sized room off the street that is clean but not upmarket in any, way, shapre of form.. 6 or 7 massage beds and while there are curtains they aren’t normally used since they massage you through the clothes you’re wearing. Don’t come expecting privacy. They chat amongst themselves while they give you the massage too. The masseurs who are not working, sit in the room using their phones and just hang out. So, the masseurs are all blind or nearly blind so they interact with their phones by their phones speaking out to them. Honestly, I tune it out so that’s not a big thing for me. If you want relaxing music and diffusers with nice smells you’re not gonna have a good time.
With that said. Sometimes I’ve walked out feeling… I think I told friends once that it felt like I had a new neck. The massages have always been incredible. Today, the headache was gone and I felt so much better. And it’s only 70rmb ($10ish) for an hour. Bargain.
Today’s TOKIO TŌKYŌ TOKYO is great.
I sympathise with not being able to get coffee early in the morning too. Who would want that?!
Some translations are amusing and others combine English in unique ways. Though often it’s hard to understand what they’re trying to say. However, this translation is perfect.
Can’t get it done? Come here and reflect with us!
Today I am grateful for making the time for coffee with friends, something I don’t do enough and should do more.
Also, IKEA having fish fingers. Amazing.
I know @maique has mentioned it but if you haven’t I cant recommend @craigmod ‘pop up’ newsletters enough. One is starting today for a series of daybreak walks around Tokyo!
Over the heat now.
