Amazingly, System Is Working

Photograph: Red, yellow, orange flowers, Kom Umbo, 2005-10-01, © Nick Varacalli. Just had a nice, relaxing weekend skiing and hanging out with friends. Got snowed in Sunday night and had to stay an extra day.

I didn’t even look at my To Do list. Adding new items didn’t count. Better yet… I didn’t fret about all the things that I needed to do when I got home. I knew I didn’t need to think about them… so I didn’t. On the drive home, I realized that I hadn’t been fretting all weekend. Mind you, I thought about pink polka-dot elephants a bit too much, but even that is s-l-o-w-l-y getting better.

Interesting and inspirational people on the weekend.

  • A couple with a 3-month old. Gave me a sliver of hope that it might be possible to have a life after Alex.
  • A minimalist with a drive to GTD. Gave me hope that one day I might be able to do the same.
  • Friends of ours are pregnant! Due about 9 weeks after we are. Yay! More company for Alex.
  • A runner training for a marathon and then an Olympic triathalon. Encouraging. Even more so now that I’ve looked up the Olympic triathlon distances: .93-mile (1.5 km) swim, 24.8-mile (40 km) bike and 6.2 mile (10 km) run. Other than the swim, totally doable. Guess I need to learn to swim.

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