68. You Have What You Want ✨
Did a special friend forward you this email and now you’d love your own? Here, let me help you with that:
It’s Sunday friends,
I hope this email finds your work and chores happily unfinished.
Here’s five things you may find interesting and/or meaningful.
1. Reading 📚
“Years ago I had a good friend who always had crushes on unavailable women. Specifically, unavailable in this tantalizing way where they seemed like they were almost about to reciprocate his feelings, almost ready for a committed relationship. One day he was telling me about the latest in this series and I said, you like it when girls are unavailable. No, he said, I just like strong women, and strong women often aren’t looking for relationships. I replied, no, you like this particular dynamic. That’s why you choose it over and over.
One thing I strongly believe is that you have what you want. Another way of phrasing it: you want what you choose. Even if, and sometimes especially if, what you choose is an impediment to your flourishing.
Don’t live in with one foot in an imagined world, ungrateful for the life that you created. We flourish when we stop fantasizing about the unlived life and accept the one we’re in.”
2. Friends Forever 💛
So incredibly proud of my incredible friend Noha, who is a famous interior designer in NYC.
Take a look at her latest renovation project featured in Architectural Digest.
3. A Poem 💌
Everything That Was Broken — Mary Oliver
Everything that was broken has
forgotten its brokenness. I live
now in a sky-house, through every
window the sun. Also your presence.
Our touching, our stories. Earthy
and holy both. How can this be, but
it is. Every day has something in
it whose name is forever.
4. Super Ordinary Life
Tokyo, via my new favourite instagram.
5. Watching
Imagine if this was your daily commute?
See you next Sunday.