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Hello, loveliesβ
Donβt you love
? They nail it every time!My former mother-in-law, who some might decry a WASPY know-it-all, was actually a genius. She called this stretch of March in New Englandβ¦ The Done Season. Itβs the season when you are completely done with your current haircut, relationship, dining room paint color, workout routine, therapist, etc. Everything is just done. Itβs freakinβ existential sadness.
So, which ones would you circle? Teetering on the edge of getting a perm? Getting locked out in your slippers?
Some are more declarative; Iβm definitely guilty of spending $87 on cheese. And I have Marie Kondoβd most of my essentialsβwhich seems to have had the opposite effect of joy. (Itβs made me anxiously ravenous for textiles and wallpaper.)
But apologies for being late this weekβ¦ I was busy annoying most of the traditional publishing world about our revised editorial calendar as we signed a six-book distribution deal with Perfect Bound and Simon & Schuster! Huzzah! πΎ
But letβs have some fun: What would be under your mental, financial, physical, and existential brackets?
What things are you done with? And what are you on the precipice of doing? (Are you really going to succumb to that flip phone?)
I think I told many of you earlier this week Iβm officially in training to become Keke Palmer of the spirit realm. (So are loads of other people, it turns out.)
Because this is the exact energy Iβm bringing into every roomβmarching into the grocery store, shouting, βYou know itβs your girl!β Gliding into the dentistβs office like, βHow do you like me now? Zero cavities, ladies!β
But Iβm also vowing more strength training, fewer snoozes, and closing more funding for the press to shield us from future volatility. Just saying.
But share your practical magic below. Because who knows? Maybe just putting it out there in the universe will spark getting it doneβin Done Season!
Yours dancing - xoxo - gotham girl
Quoted
This present moment was once the unimaginable future β Stewart Brand
PS - I am a human typo. Amnesty appreciated.
HUGE CONGRATS for signing the deal!! Well done, and richly deserved :)
I can say with full conviction that strength training 3X a week reduces the list of shit on BOTH my physical and mental health brackets. I'm teetering on the edge of buying some weird bunion-friendly sneakers, because midlife feet are hard (this is on my physical health bracket). Other than that I'm here for SPRING like a kid for Christmas morning, always have been and always will be (even though one of the only other things on my physical health bracket is seasonal allergies!).
Congratulations on the deal!!! Thatβs amazing news.
Iβm done with so many things right now that itβs impossible to pick one. (I am in a MOOD.) Is βpeopleβ an acceptable answer?