Enjoy your break and thanks for sharing the Jeff Goins piece. I'm newly 50 and this bit "Who chose all this, anyway? I am now in the middle of my life and wonder if the boy who began this journey would recognize what he signed up for. I am the recipient of someone else’s choices, someone much younger and less mature. I am the inheritor of a previous generation’s foolishness—and, also, the fool." rings true for 50 as well! So good!
Dear Tsh, I'm glad I'm a subscriber, because your newsletter is a source of good ideas. I also live in a Mayberry town....perhaps ever more so. In March of this year, I moved into a little cottage in Piney Creek, NC, in the NW corner of NC, a literal stone's throw from the Virginia border. The nearest grocery store is 26 minutes away. I've recently begun the challenge of seeing how many groceries I can purchase locally...the latest was coffee from a local coffee shop. I've become a fan of farmers markets and meeting the people who sell there. I'm going to adopt your July break, not only from my own Substack weekly newsletter (SuzanneElizabethAnderson.substack.com), but also from all social media. I've been feeling burned out lately. After a year of monumental change...my mother passed away in March 2022, prompting a move from Colorado to Maine to North Carolina. Taking a breather now that I am finally settled, sounds like a very good idea. Thanks, Tsh, Enjoy your own internet holiday.
Enjoy your break and thanks for sharing the Jeff Goins piece. I'm newly 50 and this bit "Who chose all this, anyway? I am now in the middle of my life and wonder if the boy who began this journey would recognize what he signed up for. I am the recipient of someone else’s choices, someone much younger and less mature. I am the inheritor of a previous generation’s foolishness—and, also, the fool." rings true for 50 as well! So good!
There's so many truisms in that piece! Glad you appreciated it as I did.
Dear Tsh, I'm glad I'm a subscriber, because your newsletter is a source of good ideas. I also live in a Mayberry town....perhaps ever more so. In March of this year, I moved into a little cottage in Piney Creek, NC, in the NW corner of NC, a literal stone's throw from the Virginia border. The nearest grocery store is 26 minutes away. I've recently begun the challenge of seeing how many groceries I can purchase locally...the latest was coffee from a local coffee shop. I've become a fan of farmers markets and meeting the people who sell there. I'm going to adopt your July break, not only from my own Substack weekly newsletter (SuzanneElizabethAnderson.substack.com), but also from all social media. I've been feeling burned out lately. After a year of monumental change...my mother passed away in March 2022, prompting a move from Colorado to Maine to North Carolina. Taking a breather now that I am finally settled, sounds like a very good idea. Thanks, Tsh, Enjoy your own internet holiday.