what's in this email:

what today? as a organizing life question

You need the thing you don't have in order to get the thing you want to have?

"You can't fill from an empty cup." Seems you can't empty a cup either without another empty cup!

Greetings Thinkers,

In Morning Pages this morning I asked "what today?". This line is a regular appearance in my SOC writing. What today is like what are you doing today, what do you want to to today, what do you have to to today, what do you "need" to do today, WHAT TODAY?, I ask myself? I imagine everyone asks something like this over and over again, day in and day out. What's your reoccurring question of this sort? It's how we make our lists, our lists of things to do.

Today, there was no predetermined thing in my day. The days where I have something scheduled are a certain category of feeling. I'm not very fond of pre sign ups. My favorite days are the ones I call "the 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).

So with a blank slate day ahead of me, I thought - what today? and then - I could really use a house day. A NO Things & Stuff day. How long has it been since you had that kind of day? Things & Stuff is part of all of my days. Whether I am out getting stuff, or in sorting and tagging stuff, shuffling boxes, trying to make our living space less my working space. These are the kinds of things on my "what today" consist of and it's almost always some Things & Stuff stuff in it.

I followed the thought of working on "house things". What would those things be and what would it take to make an improvement here? Then I wrote "every time I try to make room in here, I seem to get nowhere". Either I make some room and do so only by filling up some other room. And then I fill up the room I made in the first room as soon as I have to clean up for the day because all I really did was MOVE STUFF AROUND, and thus how much room can you really make when you take nothing out?

That's when I thought: it seems you need space to make space. You have to have space to make space.

And then I thought of how backwards and contradictory that seems. You need the thing you don't have in order to get the thing you want to have? That seems fucked up. That also reminds of me of that saying - you have to have money to make money. How do you have money before you can make money? How can you have to have space before you can make space?
It sounds like a circular impossibility.

And then the empty cup parable came to mind. "You can't fill from an empty cup." Seems you can't empty a cup either without another empty cup! Sub cup for room in a house. I can tell this is where people come to THROW THINGS AWAY. I don't make empty cups or rooms because I "can't" throw things away. Is that it?

So then it's back to the beginning of the impossible circle of - you have to have space to make space.

This is when things end up in my yard. I haul it out of the house to make room, to work, to organize, and then by the end of the day I have to bring it all back in (at least if it's calling for rain or I truly want to clean up) and then whatever space was made, is no more.

This idea that ..

we are containers that have capacities

... is hard to organize in my head.

Like am I a little tea cup or a big gulp?
Are you a little fancy tea cup and I'm a 20 oz Stanley?
Am I always the tea cup or am I a big gulp on some days?

How do you get more room? Do you buy a bigger cup and a bigger house? Need money to make space too?!

The idea that we have to let go of things for new things to come goes with this cup visual too.

If there is no room for new to come in, there will be no new coming to you or the new will FORCE out the old.
Like the full cup that gets poured into anyway, the stuff just overflows.

hmmm

What do you make of all this?

Do you have plenty of room?

🔺

KG

​That list of emails to date is nice​

standouts / other thoughts

Enough is a big project!

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

is this really a word?!

Use it: I "can't". Won't .

quote to consider

"You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
Bruce Lee

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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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Ciao for now!

KG

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