75. You Thought You Had Left The Island 🇬🇧
Welcome to The Dossier #75! Thank you for reading along this far. It’s wonderful to have you here. If a special friend has forwarded this to you, grab your own here:
Friends,
Happy Sunday.
I hope this email finds you BEFORE THEY DO. 👀
Here’s five things you may find interesting and/or meaningful.
1. A Poem ✨
Leaving The Island (Inishbofin) — David Whyte
(…)
Above all, the way afterwards,
you thought you had left the island
but hadn’t, the way you knew
you had gone somewhere
into the shimmering light
and come out again on the tide
as you knew you had to,
as someone who would return
and live in the world again,
a man granted just a glimpse,
a woman granted just a glimpse,
some one half a shade braver,
a standing silhouette in the stern,
holding the rail,
riding the long waves back,
ready for the exile we call a home.
2. On Rest 🛌🏼
The premise of this book, Time Off, is that you cannot maintain a great work ethic without having a great “rest ethic”. You have to take time off, vacation, go on sabbatical, pause, rest, sleep, slack, play, and goof off in order to be and do your best.
I’ve long been a champion of slack time and mandatory time off, and I am delighted all the arguments and evidence for this take are presented in this hefty book. Includes examples of very productive people, and the latest scientific evidence.
Time off is not only essential to a good life, it is something you can get better at.
3. Thinking 💭
Joan Didion // "We flatter ourselves by thinking this compulsion to please others an attractive trait: a gift for imaginative empathy, evidence of our willingness to give...we play roles doomed to failure before they are begun, each defeat generating fresh despair at the necessity of divining and meeting the next demand made upon us... To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves...there lies the great singular power of self-respect."
4. Time to Go ⏰
The banner I need for the rare occasions I entertain at home.
5. Loving 🐑🐏
I’m not crying, you’re crying.
See you next Sunday.
Excellent banner 😂😂