Make this evening all about warm smiles and warm buns.
Tomorrow Starts Tonight
Saw that quote from Olympic runner Alexi Pappas, and it’s so true.
Want to run tomorrow morning? Set your running gear out.
Want to record some music first thing in the morning (ahem, Seth)? Put your bass on your desk, so you actually have to pick it up, and if you pick it up, well, may as well write something.
It’s not about goals (“I want to write a whole song!”), it’s about systems (as James Clear writes in Atomic Habits).
So instead of banging away at one song, I just write something everyday: a riff, than another riff on top of that, oh wait, I hear something else let me write a second part.
Perfect? No way. But listen to some of your favorite musicians and you’ll hear how some of their songs on recent albums were taped together from ideas a decade earlier.
Song titles, lyrics, melodies, business ideas, work outs, whatever…
Day after day, for years, and then you end up somewhere.
Remember that spending just 5 minutes on that thing that you really liked doing (writing, drawing, making music, etc) is still awesome and you should do it!
May today bring you warm socks and a free lunch.
MUSIC MONDAY: Structure of Love II feat. Chino Moreno by VOWWS
I fell hard for VOWWS‘ 2018 album ‘Under the World,’ all from an Apple Music algorithm that put their song ‘One or the Other’ into my ears, and it became my favorite album of the entire year.
Then they remake their song ‘Burn’ with Kristina Esfandiari, one of my favorite vocalists in recent years.
And now they have a remix of ‘Structure of Love’ with freaking Deftones vocalist Chino Moreno. Like, what?
May today be filled with wolf-like confidence, and coffee so strong it makes confident wolves hesitant to approach its aromatic haze.
May your day be filled with good conversations and lots of puppers.
Running For One Hour
In the summer of 2016 I didn’t think I’d ever be able to run for 15 minutes straight. Last fall I ran a half-marathon in two hours and 16 minutes. I’m not fast, but I’ve got stubborn legs.
After three weeks off in December (after an 800 mile year), I’m getting back into the swing of things with running. I’m taking it slow, as I don’t want to rush and hurt myself, but being able to hit one hour of running without stopping has been a major milestone for me. And I’ve done it twice in a week.
Running for that long is almost meditation. It means no social media, fretting over my to-do list, or checking emails. It’s an hour of not trying to figure things out, or get into several conversations.
One hour of running is wonderful.
May your day be filled with cats that look at you that you don’t even know about. You’re under the watchful eyes of cats. Kitty surveillance, if you will.
May your day be filled with cats that look at you that you don’t even know about. You’re under the watchful eyes of cats. Kitty surveillance, if you will.