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Friday June 5, 2026

Greetings Thinkers,

Yesterday, a typo in the count AND when I had called out the count. The subj read 140 days when it was 150 days, and there's really no way I can fix that once I send it.

Speaking of counts, as I was lamenting in my Morning Pages about my bad mood and starting to think that maybe it's less a mood and more an overall state of unhappiness...chapter, season.. I thought: maybe a Challenge would "fix" it.

And then - OF COURSE that's what I thought, about what I thought.
​Challenges have been a way I fix things for a long time now.

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speaking of counts

When I thought: maybe you should do a Challenge and I was poking around at a potential SUBJECT (topic - which is the Challenge THING, as you know if you've done a Kymology Challenge before), the MATTER of a Challenge, I counted out the count. If you know me, you know I have to line things up, which means I can't start on a random day of the week on a random day in the month, and so on. That's when it occurred to me that it MIGHT just BE the exact day of - 30 days to my birthday.

and it is. Today is 30 days to my birthday.

and then I used a calculator to confirm how old I'm going to be. I used to think that people who feigned they lost track of their age, were absolutely RIDICULOUS. How can you not know how old you are?!

Now I get it. Now it happened. The math = 42, which means I am and have been 41 this past year, and I think I was thinking I was turning 43... Whatever the age and I ain't feigning, today is 30 days to my birthday and it seems a great time (= LINE UP) to start a Challenge.

What will I do with the rest of my 42nd 41st year?

So that's what I'll be thinking about today and for some 30 to come.

I have a thing in mind for an overarching "topic"; it's a lose thing and I don't think it will be the whole ARCH for my Challenge, but there is something on my mind.

Sorry to be vague. I don't like vague. To be vagued to or to be vague, and I haven't sorted out the thought enough to tell you about it (yet) so for now just letting you know there is a thought.

about yesterday

I did do the trip to PA which is something I have been thinking about doing for a long time now; since sometime last year. There is a plant and produce auction up there and I finally went.

I was nervous to go. I had not done a live auction before and I imagined "madness". People all knowing what they were doing, things going very fast, me not speaking up enough to be heard or going fast enough to get in the bidding! But I did fine. I did good.

There was a moment I was standing there also texting a friend. I said "Haha I’m a nervous Nancy, I definitely will not be making eye contact with who I’m budding against 🫣" and she said:

That was a THAT'S WHAT FRIENDS ARE FOR moment and I felt very loved and seen and understood and encouraged and supported. 🔻🔻🔻

Same thing where my Mom said this about having no more space

So there I was, in a small crowd, nodding like a pro and feeling bad ass when I bought my first thing which was a box of 1s and 2s zucchini and squash!

Now I know what it's like and I'll be going back.

AND good thing I EYEBALLED things right because I filled Fancy up to the very last inch, literally. So it ended up that I came home with a FULL Fancy!

I now know how to use a "hand truck" too!

what does this have to do with you today?

🔺

KG

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standouts / other thoughts

There is such a thing as a bad mood in my world

perspective change and life change, as one and the same

days will tell

responds to what other emotions are under experienced: embarrassment, looniness, joy, contentment

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word of the day

interloper: an unwelcome visitor or participant

use it: kind of like the word unbidden again. This unbidden interloper of a mood I'm in!

also: feigned. Because I used the word, and wanted to make sure I used it right.
: simulated or pretended; insincere.

Feigned they forgot how old they were.

quote(s) to consider

"Days move fast and the truth ain’t free"

Energy to you.

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Things you could know about me:

order: newest adds at the top, older things at the bottom

defines WEIGHT as: the quality of the quantity of matter you are carrying

I like to antagonize common sayings and typical perspectives

Everything is a choice and authenticity is supreme.

Reflecting on my life whether it's looking back at the last month or doing a "this time last year" thing, shorter or longer time frames, doing this at all is a reflection of who I am. That I care to consider who I am, who I have been, what I have done, so that I may use all of that to inform what I do and who I am in the present and the future. That I reflect is a reflection of who I am.

running with turtles

I know, I'm a horror to say anything to some times..

when all my identities are umbrellas

I love a good double negative!

Plan in quotes because I'm so averse to "plans" and "goals".

I chunk out my days, to the minute, in Gcal.

I love to putter so if it becomes "I puttered my life away" so be it.

I'm not a cherry picker, of anything. I like to use things that exist rather than start from new or scratch.

I am an ostrich about politics, news, current events, pop culture and media.

I dislike clichés and most positive quotes, under thought things meant well, commonly said quotes and phrases.

Don't tell me what to do, don't ask me "how how are you?" or say "I'm sorry for your loss" unless you want to annoy me or you really, really mean it. And know it can be hard to tell which it is, and I'm wrong not infrequently.

30 Day Challenges are my thing. I have a tendency to make things every day things. This is where 30 Day Challenges come from!

Like yourself. Know yourself. Express that self.
Think about things. Don't feel like you have to dance in the rain to have a good life.
Don't have a plan. Stand for what matters. Read when you want to. Don't smile when people tell you to.
Don't have goal. Tend plants. Leave marks. Do what you say. Change YOUR world. And your mind!
Be a friend and a daughter and a partner and a sister and a dog mom.
In a world full of "accept who you are" messages, don't forget to be a "work on that" kind of person.
Don't put kindness above truth. Try new things. Be honest. Live by ideals. Have some whimsy.
What you do for money matters; strive to like what you do for money. (job)
If you have a hobby you need a life.
Use what attracts you and let what you care about matter!

Peepers are my favorite sound.

Triangles are my favorite shape.

54 is my number.

I never need to talk but thank you for offering to listen.

If you say I'm overthinking it, I'll probably say you are underthinkig it.

why I do what I do: I want to "make you" THINK. I don't mind if your experience and perception of me "makes you" be more mindful, use your brain more, "think too much" or consider something more carefully, or differently, or moves you to be (more) thoughtful or intentional or authentic.

I am a hugger and I mean my hugs.

I don't like to have scheduled things. The days where I have something scheduled are a certain category of feeling. I'm not very fond of pre sign ups, committing to things in advance externally. My favorite days are the ones I call "blank slate days". Nothing scheduled, nothing formally EXTERNALLY committed (I am full of internal commitment and ideas all the time, so no day is truly uncommitted).

use the moons

I love rules and I am a ruler follower.

I like a cup to fill.

So which is it Kym. Do you like wide open clean slate no commitment things?
Or you "need" want and thrive in containers, defined spaces, rules and limits?

Geez what a walking contradiction. A biggest when to which Witch!?

SOC life - what you allow in, turns into what you spend your time on. Can you see it?

Tomb raider hot is my favorite kind of girl hot, my favorite hot to be.

Resources

A link list for quick and easy clicking.

• Exhibit: the: "how do you decide what you do and don't express" doozy
• ​Kymology,com
• ​Substack​
• ​Kymology Youtube​
• what does it mean when Kym sends you a triangle (put a LINK here KG!)

Thank you for being here. Energy to you. 🔺
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Ciao for now!

KG

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