The silver lining to Rocket unleashing a flood of pee on my backpack - I had to get everything out of there & sort through the dozens of pieces of paper and scraps I had lying in the bottom of that thing. I’m finding a bunch of interesting things I’d written down so I could ruminate over them later. Except I never did. They’ve been sitting in a marsh of dust and other to-do lists.

As I’m fishing through all of them - I’m finding it’s difficult to let them go, to throw them away and think I may never return.

So - why not log them here? At least the ones I’m enjoying enough to want to remind myself to come back to at some point.

Below are some of my favorites:

“It is never too late to be who you might have been.”
- The idea that we’re constantly creating and recreating ourselves. Pulling apart the pieces we don’t like about ourselves and watering the qualities we do. Investing time, love, and energy into the people and places we hold dear. I like the idea that we become what we surround ourselves with. The food we eat, the thoughts we think, the people we become friends with. I recently listened to a podcast about a person who had a major climbing accident and has become paralyzed because of that incident. She talked about how she’s had to rethink a lot about what her life looks like without climbing. It’s made me realize we all do this reshaping at some point or another. But how do we separate ourselves from an identity of the things we do from who we are. I also feel like we’re changing so often - how do you even say “I am this” when the March version of myself already feels so different from the April version.
“I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing. Especially when singing isn’t necessarily prescribed.”

Notes from my past self