This tastes like paint
There's something about Fall that's nice. The smell of the leaves, or the bite of the cold, or the taste of a hot chai while the wind chaps your face.
I don't update more because I don't have more to say. Work is the same. I will leave soon, I think. I don't know. If I leave this job, do I leave Chicago? Fly to somewhere that is different or new or without people I know or without a job? I did that here. It was a hard few months.
The truth is that I need to work more on the things I care about and let those grow so I can feel some sprinkling of the thing we called fruitfulness.
Bear fruit. Bears eat honey. Honey is not a fruit.
Move the earth.
I don't update more because I don't have more to say. Work is the same. I will leave soon, I think. I don't know. If I leave this job, do I leave Chicago? Fly to somewhere that is different or new or without people I know or without a job? I did that here. It was a hard few months.
The truth is that I need to work more on the things I care about and let those grow so I can feel some sprinkling of the thing we called fruitfulness.
Bear fruit. Bears eat honey. Honey is not a fruit.
Move the earth.
posted by Monsterbeard @ 10:42 PM
6 Comments:
At 2:03 PM, October 10, 2007,
Anonymous said…
We all have the potential to be history makers. What makes life is not necessarily leaving a huge imprint on time, but rather having the tenacity to try, to risk. And even if it fails, you have done something, you have pushed limits- both in yourself and the world around you.
Most people get stuck before they even try because they are afraid they will fail at some huge ideal they have in mind. It's not about the mass movements. It's about the small ones within yourself that, like a butterfly flapping its wings in California, create an earthquake in Japan. You'll never know the trail of your impact. But you can only try, moment by moment, to live fully, and know that THAT is what matters.
At 2:05 PM, October 10, 2007,
Anonymous said…
Uh... Ps... That means, (in long-winded and perhaps ambiguous terms) that I believe in you.
At 6:52 PM, October 10, 2007,
i might be Amy said…
i like where this is going. Missoula, anyone? seriously.
At 8:55 PM, October 10, 2007,
Class of 2000 officers said…
that tea facility of yours had nice font. not sure about what's going on inside, though.
i'd say portland. that way i can be envious of you.
At 11:47 PM, October 16, 2007,
Anonymous said…
hi chris... i'm gonna be in chicago next week... it's lauren by the way.... i'm moving there in january and hear you're possibly needing someone to help pay rent... not saying it would be a long term thing, but i could possibly help for awhile... if yo're no interested i understand that too!
phillips.lauren@gmail.com
At 11:02 PM, March 20, 2008,
Anonymous said…
the saying goes ' you can't fail if you don't try'. Most people don't try because of the fear. The real fear is going through your life and suddenly finding yourself old and never having tried.
So, don't just try, DO DO DO until you can do no more. Then you will have tried your best. And you will have learned so many things along the way that you suddenly will know you won the game a long time ago.
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