Why do I forget that the path connecting idea to plan to implementation to results is long, meandering, and unseeable? The good and bad news is that there’s lots of room for things to happen along the way. Stay alert. Settle in. Chin up.
— Jessica David (@JDinRI) July 7, 2020
Hold on to the people who see you, who think you’re funny, who get the way you view the world, who smile when you smile, who hear when you say something important, who take a tiny bit of your being into their hearts. Those are your people; they are rare and precious. Chin up.
— Jessica David (@JDinRI) July 6, 2020
I am always rewarded when I choose to: Take joy in others’ accomplishments. Replace defensiveness with curiosity. Put down the uninteresting book. Pause before responding. Pause before the second (third) cookie. Smile. Here’s to good choices. Chin up.
— Jessica David (@JDinRI) July 5, 2020
How might we (I) make this year, place, world (me) a tiny bit more bearable? Chin up.
— Jessica David (@JDinRI) July 4, 2020
I have a jar of beach rocks, my grandmother’s eyes, stubborn restlessness, a copy of Little Women I got for $4.95 at Job Lot 30 years ago, my dad’s definitions of hard work and good bread, and a lot of pens. Every ancestor. Every choice. What do you carry with you? Chin up.
— Jessica David (@JDinRI) July 3, 2020
Tell me who you have faith in. What you think about when you wake up in the middle of the night. The price you’d pay for that thing. (Yes, that one.) Tell me why you’re on fire. What you would give voice to, if there were just one more sentence left to say. (Say it.) Chin up.
— Jessica David (@JDinRI) July 2, 2020
Life requires a lot of bending. Sometimes we get all wonderfully stretchy. Sometimes something important snaps. Challenge is, we don’t always know which will happen, and we don’t always get to say when. Chin up.
— Jessica David (@JDinRI) July 1, 2020
I am fairly certain that becoming a real, grown up, three dimensional person has something to do with learning how to gracefully accept when options become impossibilities. (Still working on this.) Chin up.
— Jessica David (@JDinRI) June 30, 2020
Love your people with all the madness and softness and restlessness and sweetness and ridiculousness and wholeness in your soul. All of it. Chin up.
— Jessica David (@JDinRI) June 29, 2020
A working theory: The better the questions, the less the answers matter. Chin up.
— Jessica David (@JDinRI) June 28, 2020