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Sophie Lucido Johnson's avatar

Whoops! I’d failed to restock the prints this week. For anyone who tried early and saw they were sold out — they weren’t! I’m just a little air headed today.

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Addie Deacon's avatar

What you are describing I feel like I might just call ease, or being in the flow or in a flow state. (though I suppose a Flow state is more specific to creativity/activity.) But when things are going rather effortlessly or with just the right amount of effort, that seems like ease to me. (I long for ease so often!) I’ve heard the headwinds-tailwinds thing referred to as negativity bias also. What you described as the ways you noticed the regularity is a lot like what some folks call a gratitude practice which is a proven way to overcome negativity bias!

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Addie Deacon's avatar

And I forgot to add, thanks for the reminder to get back to practicing gratitude and “taking in the good” (to quote Rick Hanson who has a lot to say on this topic)

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Sophie Lucido Johnson's avatar

These are great terms! Thanks for them and for the content recs, as always.

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Brendan J's avatar

I read that Remy Charlip book to my twin nieces as one of our video-call storytime selections several times a year. They do not mind the repetition, and I really enjoy how they have a new take on Ned's obstacles each time. (They are five.)

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Kat's avatar

As a result of this I get the book very stuck in my head

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Sophie Lucido Johnson's avatar

The original version of this post mentioned that you had this book at your house to read to your nieces, but it got cut for brevity. Thank you for bringing this to the readership in comment form.

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loretta lucido's avatar

Loved the part about white people eating apples. Like maybe Johnny Appleseed was a girl was not white. One good thing about apples is when the inside is white and crunchy though. Love the helmet.

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loretta lucido's avatar

When I was teaching I always knew it was mid-semester when I felt that way, like it's all going okay, but where's the zip?

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Sophie Lucido Johnson's avatar

Interesting! It’s almost halfway through the semester, which always strikes me as wild.

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Danielle's avatar

love this, i think having a kid has helped me recognize and enjoy those days more than ever before. they re-energize me, and having the wherewithal to be mindful of them lends itself to gratitude. right now my kid is eating the sandwich i made him. cool!

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Sophie Lucido Johnson's avatar

That IS cool!!! What kind of sandwich does he like?

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Danielle's avatar

haha good ol' grilled cheese

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Kat's avatar

Some potential tailwind words: boost, accelerants, advantages? I will think on this

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Sophie Lucido Johnson's avatar

I like these! Thank you!

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Myq Kaplan's avatar

sophie, this is great!

some specific things that are great from it:

-- that fox pic!

-- "day-to-day days"

-- "Is your regularity regular?" (apparently i have a type of thing i like. an atypical type?)

-- "squash from our garden" (love squash and gardens)

-- "this particular kind of luck: the uninteresting kind; the almost expectable kind." (this is a great thing to notice! the luck of bad things not happening as opposed to the luck of good things happening. bad things not happening is a good thing!)

-- "Fortunately, a friend loans him a plane!"

-- the word "megafauna"

-- “he-thinks-he‘s-handsome scruff”

-- "So many things do work."

-- "A stranger says hi to you" (hi, everyone reading this!)

PS my friend chris duffy has a podcast called "how to be a better human" and he had mike schur as a guest recently. mike created "the good place" and told a story about a guy who almost died but didn't because of a certain kind of luck and so now that guy views the rest of his life as the result of that luck in a way. any good thing that happens especially i imagine, he's like "what good luck that i didn't die that time so this thing could happen"

also, sometimes i think about this. there are youtube videos that have millions of views and tons of likes. sometimes they have negative comments, maybe even more so than positive comments, which i think is often because when people like something, they're often just like "that was nice, now on to continue my nice time living and such after just clicking the heart button," but when people don't like something, they're more likely to potentially dwell and wallow and comment negatively. so, i like thinking of each like/heart-button situation as a comment that says "i like this" even if there's no comment there. also, i like commenting when i like things. like this.

i like this! thanks for sharing it all, sophie and all!

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