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09:22…. Focused on my Mental Health this morning, and ideas yesterday formed at work, in concern with one of the educators, and my VP. Just messaged VP, and taking a second to SELF.  Can start making some calls, soon. Onto something.  As in, I found gems.  That were always there, but…..  Okay, need to calm…

09:22 Surprised how ahead of the day I am, to be honest. Still haven’t made the next coffee.  Maybe I should do that now. Meeting pushed to 14:00.  Okay, good. Waiting for an idea to catch me.  Made my rounds, tended to notes, audited calendar.  Too ahead oft the day’s Beat for a writer’s own…

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1-15-26 Mid-month, already.  In office, in my head, trying to distract myself with work… Staying focused and set here, where I am.  The entrepreneur mind is about me, afraid of nothing.  Certainly not some imagined failure. Running today, 4 mile goal. Coffee next to me, speaking with me as it wishes. 08:31 Moving slow, deliberate….

These grapes don’t look like ambition.

They look like patience. Old wood, cracked and scarred, holding up something soft and temporary. The vine doesn’t rush. It doesn’t ask if it’s ready. It just keeps doing the work—season after season—until sweetness happens on its own. I like that the fruit grows low, close to the gnarled parts. Not at the flashy tips….

Pic from a few months ago…. Meditation. Calm. LIFE.

08:44, and like that, well……. Music.

That needs to be more a focus.  Nurse and I watching a movie last night, about music and people pursuing it.  I put on some Lofi beats, start writing.  Paper, then typing… Rebuild, restart, open container Of instruments  Time to carve All bite, never a bark More concerned with end than a simple start Missiles…

15:22

….. This first day has a been a storm, not just with the rain but content and questions being answered by the scene itself. Leaving in about 20 for another errand.  Peace overtakes me.  This new year, this first day, even after the horrible sleep last night interrupted by canine anxiety and fireworks and explosions…

I got out there.

I fucking did it. 6.32 miles, 8:47 per. Not bad.  In fact, I’m surprised I did that well, considering how fucked my/our sleep was last night. Little after 13:00.  Thinking of either getting out of the house and writing or driving somewhere to take pictures.  Either one or the other Mikey, can’t have both.  And……

Thursday January 1st, 2026:  HERE. Ready for everything.  Creating EVERYTHING.  That I need, want, think or dream of, slightly fancy.  Doing all of it. 08:54, home office.  Latte sipped slow as always, and me thinking of a rain run.  Taking a break… 11:06.  Nap and an early lunch, didn’t sleep well last night so doing…