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I wish our first day was yesterday

Wednesday July 8, 2026

morning, 9:00 am

Greetings from the beach,

Day 2.

Duck was a hit at the beach yesterday. 2 little girls came over right away to ask if they could pet him, what's his name, and so on.

Then we did the small talk stuff -

"are y'all from here?" the older one asks.
I say no and she goes on.

"no?, when did you get here?"
I tell her yesterday, this is our first day to the beach and ask her - "When did you get here?"

She tells me this is their last day, and her younger sister chimes in "I wish our first day was yesterday".

These 2 little girls, looking like they'd been at the beach a week with their sun tans and confidence in the waves and in approaching a stranger with an incredibly cute dog, sent me immediately into last day feels.

On the first day you feel you have so much time, time to do everything. By the last day you wish it was the first day and where did all the time go? It's like Sundays when I used to "celebrate" weekends. Dread for the end of the weekend, heartache for the end of the trip.

be where you are

Day 5 sore from the hike, it's fading, but I am still walking funny.

I am still bunked with the 8 year old. She's in my Wake up in Loves and knows about Wake up in Love. This morning as I raised the phone overhead to take the pic, she said wait for me and scooted in. My heart could have exploded with love. Wake up in Love was so easy this morning.

Day 1 beach trip, we beached. Hauled all the stuff that a family of 6 with children and dog needs. Beach chairs, boogie boards, sand buckets and shovels, towels and blankets, goggles and nets, SNAKCS, SNACKS, SNACKS and drinks, an umbrella and a pop up table - much stuff we found in the very well stocked garage. And a wagon to haul it all.

We were so full in Fancy, Duck rode lap.

After a few hours at the beach, no bad sunburns and the biggest crisis was losing the goggles in a wave, later found by super dad making a heroic dive in shallow water to recover them, we headed back to the house for the showers. Mine, the outdoor with Duck, was so good. Outdoor showering goes on my list of things you could know about me; a favorite thing.

Today we will beach again, I think, because well when you go to the beach, you go to the beach.

What are your beach trips like?

Are you a chair sitter or a sand sitter? Do you get in the water, are you afraid of sharks? What is the quintessential beach pack - what snacks, what drinks...

How do you beach?

I am still thinking about abductions and missing persons and wilderness / national park mysteries and crimes.

Last night we watched a good movie. The first of the Enola Holmes movies. It was good. I liked it.

Camp burrito is coming out, the coffee is getting cold, I am not burning Duck's food on the stove while I write this, because my best friend turned it off for us.

What does this have to do with you today?

How do you beach?

🔺

KG

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what would Idgie Threadgoode and Ouiser Boudreaux do AT THE BEACH?

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word of the day

detective

quote(s) to consider

“Look for what's there, not what you want to be there.”

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Things you could know about me:

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

ever green perennial Kym

I make things bigger than they are, and I use them.

Camp burritos and dog food are the most labor intensive things I make

you should never say "just my thoughts" about your thoughts

how is a process, what is a thing

To be close to me in this life, you run the risk of having your life be part of me and I exhibit about mine. The folks who are close, are close in part because they know that and accept it.

I have never been CAGEY about my age and I don't like people who are.

Old plants are special. plants given to you from people you love, plants that out live those people. God help me when one of those plants dies.

"man made" doesn't bother me

I will do spider surgery before I "put them out of their misery"

I'd rather be dirty or wash out of a mixing bowl than shower somewhere else (sorry Mom)

I was not a whiskey drinker. I don't know when I become a whiskey drinker. I have hated whiskey and all dark liquor all my life. Now I drink old fashioneds. Who have I become?

You will often find me "wrapping my head around that good thought"

vague. I don't like vague. don't be vague with me, I won't be vague with you. at least not on purpose.

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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