I've missed a few days of check ins but no days of writing, @Philip Folsom. The streak continues at 18. I'm doing double duty today as I neglect my professional life to write a sequel to the short book I wrote for my son when he went to sleep away camp last summer (a sovereign activity inspired by Philip).

Virtually no browsing - with @Philip Folsom Ticking off admin tasks and 6+hrs on calls today left very little time to be wasted. Created a Youtube channel - thanks for the prod @Oxana K !! Thought I'd run out to the gym this afternoon, but that was not to be - work stuff came up and that's the priority at the moment. Edit: No alcohol, no temptation. The streak continues!

Browse time slipped a little, but not out of control: A few random articles between meetings throughout the day - would have been better spent lying on my back staring at the ceiling 😅 - @Philip Folsom One of my meeting-limbo-finds was a Substack post by @Brody Davis - good stuff! Stacking up my time to create a gap to go buy a heater, some supplies, harvest, set up the heater & deliver some mushrooms. The growth is glacial in these temperatures; I need to get them pumping. One of the guys in our brotherhood posted this poem by Martha Postlethwaite - I recall Philip said something along the same vein in one of our weekly tribe calls(?) - about not trying to save the whole world, but creating these tribes, or "clearings". "Clearing" Do not try to save the whole world or do anything grandiose. Instead, create a clearing in the dense forest of your life and wait there patiently, until the song that is your life falls into your own cupped hands and you recognize and greet it. Only then will you know how to give yourself to this world so worthy of rescue.

Kept the writing streak alive @Philip Folsom and got the Substack published to support the book about mind-body pain symptoms as a distraction from the life I should have been building. Will be posting weekly. Please follow along if interested. https://painthedistraction.substack.com/?r=6vx9o&utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=profile-page

14 days of 500+ words, @Philip Folsom. Will be launching substack in conjunction with my new project on Tuesday. Would have taken much longer (if ever) to get that going without the accountability here. Hope all had a good weekend.