what's in this email:

I am not the person who gives "responsible advice"

stupid questions, stupid things to think and feel

to whatever unreasonable extent you "can", do the things you want to do!

Do you have a favorite way you like to be experienced by others or affect people?

Tuesday July 14, 2026

morning, 9 am

Greetings Thinkers,

Tuesday, New Moon 🌑. Day 190 of this. A round number but not round enough to matter once you're in the hundreds.

Mid July. How is it mid July already? A stupid question to ask.

I want to slow down soon. As soon as I think it, I also think - that's another stupid thing to say.

I recently advised someone to quit their job without a new job lined up for the same reason saying I want to slow down, is stupid.

We lament a life we want, while staying in the circumstances we want to leave or change.

as cliche as it is,

taking the leap before it will work, is what makes it work

(Note: I am not the person who gives "responsible advice".)

I am the friend who will tell you to quit the job or take the trip without the new job offer signed, without the savings account buffered. I will tell you to get the dog, ditch the guy, go for the girl. Whatever it is you are saying you want, I will tell you it matters and you should do it.

It is my experience and opinion that

the "safer" way is the slow way

It's not that slow is bad, but it IS that slow can become the - it took 15 years to do it, and how much life and other things did you miss in those 15 years you took?

In the fact of compounding, every thing you do is affected my every thing you do and everything you do brings about different "consequences" and other things. Different results that affect that next and next and next thing. The longer you wait, the more you delay all the things that could be coming for you. So my approach is - to whatever unreasonable extent you "can", do the things you want to do. You should do those things.

The equal and opposite of "fail fast". Don't wait, don't lament, don't get ready. Do the direction you desire and stuff will come up and support you.

Another equal and opposite:
"what you suppress will come up in stranger forms" (- a Kymology saying)
Also true: what you express will come up in more wonderful forms too!

How did I get here, why did I write all that? Oh it started at "I want to slow down soon" as a stupid thing to say.

what else?

Do you have a favorite way you like to be experienced by others or affect people?

Mine is to be told "you make me think" - you make me think better, you make me think differently, or about things I've never thought about. This is my favorite thing to be in the world. This is my favorite kind of compliment to receive. This is my favorite way to affect others. What is yours?

Worked on the "thing with Mom" by going over to see her. I hadn't seen her since 2 days before my bday and I had gotten mad at her during that time. So yesterday I went to see her and we talked it out. Sometimes things happen that "make me" notice how much or relationship has changed over 40 years. Yesterday was one of them. I landed at - I'm hard on her and I want to be better about that.

recall: you can become the kind of person who doesn't require certainty before acting

The countdown to Christmas: 11 days (PINK) Christmas in July

What does this have to do with you today?

🔺

KG

I need to want to do the June review soon!

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standouts / other thoughts

People will pay if you don't force them to.
Will people pay if you don't make them?

Write that down (track the Enola Holmes / Sherlock line).

Extra like sardine topping on homemade dog food?

different habits of mind

A theorist is concerned with HOW something works
A philosopher is concerned with WHY something works

You're a pattern philosopher.

paying close attention to the particular until it reveals a general truth.

Keep Idgie Threadgoode and Ouiser Boudreaux in mind?

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word of the day

congruence: the quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate. synonyms: congruity, congruousness. harmoniousness, harmony. Compatibility in opinion and action.

use it: Asking does it match does it line up, is that true, does that track. This thread of questioning is a very particular way of moving through the world. It's one of the reasons your creative work ends up feeling so cohesive - because you aren't just looking for beauty and right and wrong, you're looking for congruence.

quote(s) to consider

the things we do, do things to us

Energy to you.

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Things you could know about me:

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

revere what you say

I don't know. I continue to wonder about life and the meaning of it and if I'm doing it right, spending it well. These are normal and regular thoughts for me... nothing to feel concern for me about.

when did I become a person with a "good dog"?

I don't understand or like people who don't look for sea shells at the beach

I LIKE rules and I value integrity, authenticity, honesty.

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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