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Greetings Thinkers,

New month on a Full Moon! What a line up!

Yesterday was a doozy. I went to my Mom's to take care of my sister while she went out to take care of some things. Errands. We are in TOTAL CARE mode more than my sister was already TOTAL CARE. And my Mom is doing A LOT.

The not enough, not doing enough feeling is definitely up for me. I said this to a reader just this morning actually, in response to that "never enough" thing that I think we all deal with at times.

"Thinking of what we're doing, if we're doing good (or enough) is a never ending thought, I think. So it's not to NOT think about it, it's to have better quality thoughts about it, I think." Enough is a big project!

where did April Fools come from?

April Fools is a child's holiday.
April Fool's is a weird holiday, not a real holiday.
??

I recall the first time I was made aware that April Fools was a thing. I'm not even sure it was actually April. My older cooler cousin's were just getting me hip to the thing of playing pranks. Such a thing had never occurred to me. We put Saran Wrap and lotion on the toilet seat, our mom's bras in the freezer, sand in their shoes, string across their doorways in the mornings for their wake ups, replaced half the milk in the jug with water. God it all sounds awful. How pissed I would be if this was done to me.

These were cousins we always visited in the summer, so I can't even imagine it was actually April Fools Day. Just a day in July where they were teaching me these ropes and we were wreaking havoc on our poor folks. I remember tracking all the booby traps, waiting anxiously for the next poor soul to run into one and yell out with surprise. Heaven forbid they go to the bathroom and not come out proclaiming about whatever had happened to them in there, via the clever trick we left for them. If they didn't come out showing their experience, then we'd be running in to see what failed.

I remember going home and continuing these pranks as a short lived norm. My parents nipped that in the bud real quick. NO it is not okay to put lotion on the toilet seat and moms nice bras in the freezer just because you think it's funny.
Quit it and I think I did.

Later on April Fools was pretty much just an opportunity to tell a lie and then declare just kidding later. The most I recall doing this was in high school relationships. FEIGN a break up and then a "JUST KIDDING"!

April Fools died off for me after that. Just not the kind of holiday I found interesting, funny, or useful. Recall I'm not funny and I don't like sarcasm and insincerity = very not my holiday.

so what's the origin of April Fools Day?

I popped in a Google search and so far I have 2 frustrating experiences of clicking on a link that looks good and hitting a pay wall or a must give your email thing. GUH back to that crap!

Here's what I've pieced:

a French reference - a poisson d'avril (April fool, literally "April's fish")

and there seems be a lot of ideas about where it could have come from and references as old as the 1500s!!!

I have a friend whose birthday is April 1, today (happy birthday again Emily if you're here!) and I've been thinking - gosh I bet it was horrible as a child with a birthday on April Fools. Was the relenting joke - "it's not really your birthday" and it was further just over shadowed with all the pranks? I wonder. I bet she has stories. I'll have to ask her.

Also goes with March - life was life-ing! How did I forget to put that on the Things to Remember about March list?!

Energy to you, you fool!

🔺

KG

PS Full Moons are for illuminations and "letting go". If you want to use the energy, there's some symbolism for ya!

​That list of emails to date is nice​

standouts / other thoughts

currently (NOT) reading:

Books:

• Kitchen Things
• Let Them
• The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
• Plato The Last Days of Socrates
• Forgotten Home Apothecary

word of the day

demilune - a crescent or half-circle, or a thing of this shape.

I know this term because there tables called demilunes and I like it because it has to do with moons!

Use it: Today is NOT a demilune day!

quote to consider

moonlight drowns the stars

Energy to you.

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Below here is an area of reference. Explanations of things commonly referred to in the emails.

Index: references, keys, and definitions

What does any of this have to do with you?
You tell you.

SOC = Stream Of Consciousness

When to Which / When is it Which: a Kymology philosophy that every single thing has its equal and opposite true and good side. Every single thing is literal here.

Exhibit. When I say the word Exhibit it's my way of saying a post or a share. I exhibit my life by posts and publishings on social media and blog spaces. These are my Exhibits.
My life is my work, my work is my life. I Exhibit my work.
like to exhibit art in a gallery. Show, put on a wall for experience, interoperation, comment, and ultimately USE.

A Year of Inspiring, The Kymology Daily - what it is: daily emails about whatever I'm thinking about and writing out. Not quietly. Not maybe. Not sometimes. Not irregularly. Not in silence until it's done. Daily. A Year of Inspiration, the Kymology Daily Email is for and about getting my stuff written out and down. Catalogged and Exhibited. And practicing. Practicing regular exhibiting, and writing, writing, writing.

"It's been awhile since I've been called inspiring." Then be inspiring again.

Don't break commitments you make to yourself.

You never say "you're human" to a huge success.

Coordinating to get the thing done, is not not doing the thing.

How you arrange your details matters.

A list of words to remember and use "more":

• polymath
• sundries
• short shrift
• gimassive
• apricity
• remonstrate- to argue against something to change it, to present and urge reasons in opposition, expostulate

Everyone's nothing is different.
Everyone's everything is different too.

is it worth it, is it worth it, is it worth it - saying this to everything!

YES YOU CAN SHARE THIS​
Sometimes I get asked ~ "would you mind if I sent this to a friend. I think they should read this." My answer to this is ALWAYS YES. My perspective of my Work is that it is PUBLIC. Sure it might seem like I share personal stuff here sometimes and you're right, I do. And I Exhibit for the REASON OF potential. What it could do for someone, that someone could USE IT. So if you know a someone like that, please always feel free to share, pass it along, copy and paste it over whatever you think I best for what you want to do. Sure I'd prefer you didn't copy my words as your own or monetize this in a way I haven't figured out for myself, but beyond that, this is for the using however you see fit.

Things you could know about me:

I'm not a cherry picker of anything. I like to use things that exist rather than start from new or scratch. I am typically an ostrich about politics, news, current events, pop culture and media. I dislike under thought things like cliches and commonly said quotes and phrases. Don't tell me what to do, or say "how how are you?" or "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.

I have a tendency to make things every day things. This is where 30 Day Challenges come from!
​Challenges as a framework are what my body, mind, and soul gravitate toward. (That's the everydayness thing.)

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 make what you want, matter!

Peepers are my favorite sound.

Triangle is my favorite shape.

54 is my number.

I never need to talk.

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

why I do what I do:

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. All of these things are reasons why I do what I do and why I am the way I am. I consider these things good things, so if I'm the catalyst for anything like this, so far I think that's a good thing.

I mean my hugs

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

Resources

A link list for quick and easy clicking.

• Exhibit: the: "how do you decide what you do and don't express" doozy
• ​Kymology Website
• ​Substack​
• ​Kymology on Youtube​

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Energy to you. 🔺
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Ciao for now!

KG

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