If I Can Do It So Can You

Dear Beautiful Friends,

Well, hell. I decided to give the new video feature a try, and not wait until I was wearing something cute on a good hair day, in my office where a pretty mosaic hangs in the background, with the sun shining, the birds chirping and me bounding with cheerful, inspiring energy. Instead, I’m on my daybed under washout lighting, wearing my favorite SmartWool long underwear top (which doubles as daywear), and dreaming of bedtime.

Would you like to join me in doing one thing you’ve been thinking of doing, but keep putting off until . . . the time is right? I dare you to do it when the time is absolutely not right. Any ol’ time. When you least expect it even. Right now, perhaps?

I made this video to give you courage. And—

Here’s what’s surprise-and-delighting this week

1. Marriageology is an entertaining, instructional, smart, researched, personal and laugh-out-loud FUNNY book about what it takes to keep a marriage together. I keep reading sections to my husband out loud because he’ll appreciate the humor and the side benefit is I get to sneak in the tiniest bit of conversation. He appreciates the wisdom of keeping arguments short—the fewer the word count, the better for the relationship as one expert says.
   
   The author, Belinda Luscombe hails from Sydney, my mom’s hometown, and I want to be her friend and have Truth or Dare sleepovers with her around the clock.

2. My new best friend/author (above) is married to an architect. In one section she makes a passing reference to her acquired knowledge of Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid. Because I’m a huge Gehry fan, I looked up Zaha Hadid and 🤯🤯🤯. Please take this short tour of the Changsha Meixihu International Culture and Arts Center.

Make sure you play the video portion on the last two slides, and let this work open your imagination to fresh thoughts about style, shapes, creativity, beauty, weirdness, sci-fi worlds, the unconsidered ways of moving through space and experiencing art & culture.

3. Monday morning 5:15 a.m., I was stumbling around the house getting ready to leave to coach a Masters swim workout. It’s 35 degrees out. I’ve put my warm stuff in the basement because it’s April. Steve is in bed, half-asleep beneath our comforter, lucky bastard. Despite this, I let him know what’s on my mind.

“Oh dear, I think I’m going to have to go downstairs to get …” I couldn’t remember the name of the thing I wanted to get (warm boots), and let the sentence hang there, unfinished for about 30 seconds.

“Your barbecue mitts?” My husband called from bed.

Maybe you had to be there but it was so random and ridiculous, I folded in half and laughed so hard I was making strange animal noises while my husband tried to sleep.

If you do one thing in this life, find a partner who makes you laugh. And then, everything is forgivable.

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Drop-in coaching on Thursdays

ROUSE YOURSELF

If you’re waking up late from the long winter/cold spring slumber, here’s an exaltation for your spirit:

Through April I’m offering drop-in coaching sessions on Thursdays. It could be a new chapter you’re trembling before, and you’d like someone with whom you can explore uncharted territory and see new possibilities, or you’re blooming with an idea but can’t get it off the ground. One hour, $200, you + me + Thursday = waking up for the slumber and coming alive, again.
Email me at tatyana@everydaycreative to inquire/schedule.