Great Minds Think Alike (but you already know that)

February '13 — Does he see the potentials?

Mindset: Cautious Optimism. "The Covid", as it's known East of the Mississippi, continues to linger in our home longer than welcome, like the friends that don't consider 11 PM the outer time window of guesttiquite, and instead, press for another cork to be pulled. Yet, it is slowly working towards the door, and hopefully, by tomorrow, I'll see one less red line on the test strip. Then, I can return to my usual routine. Only I'm not sure I will. This week has resulted in a bit of a reset for me. I'm surveying the lands, so to speak. I'm rethinking some things: ideas, ideals, intentions, intuitions, all those "i" words. Time spent immersed in creating the photo book for the kids brought some refined insight (there's another one of those pesky "i" words), as did time spent returning to numerous relevant posts over the years. I'm considering having them printed as an adjacent booklet for them. I was tempted to merge them into the photo book, but that time window has passed. I've canceled and reordered it three times already while working out the logic behind having "1st day of school" photos not aligning with my recollection of the timelines until realizing there were 13, requiring a deft workaround to get them all on that final page. And the posts might offset the balance I strived for in the photos. If I had another week, maybe I'd rework it, but I don't, and I'm OK with that. Perfect is the enemy of the good, I'm told.
Goals: Work on the blog post booklet and see how it turns out. Also, work on the "1st Days" booklet. It should be something isolated, with attribution to Linda and Tom Chlebon.
Anticipation: I will complete those two tasks today so I can get the hell out of the swirling and engulfing tech vortex and get back to writing.
Wants: To apply what I've experienced into more action than just recursively ruminating and writing about that alone, ad nauseam.