> I got over my morning "case of the Mondays" pretty quickly. I am proud of having managed to maintain a healthy perspective, it helped. Eagle Plumbing swooped in and snaked the grease clogged drain. Twice. We're good for another 6-9 months depending on our household habits. I tipped him well in a 'paying it forward' manner. I know the bill goes to the company while he's out doing the work for a fixed rate. I stayed busy and focused throughout the morning including the timely rain gutter clearing and trimming back the branches from the neighbors tree before they grow into our power lines. I listened to a couple of hours of David Sederis's MasterClass on writing. I found it inspirational. Enough so that I started playing with a few variations on some works in progress. I like his approach to writing essays. He conveyed that rewriting is a constant aspect of writing – it's never really 'done', it's always a work in progress until it's been passed around and refined to an absurd point of exhaustion. I had lost that mindset over the past several years. I think it's an approach that'll be useful for me to revisit when I start weeding through the over 300 ideas waiting for my time and attention.
