“Love people, and use things. Because the opposite never works.”
-The Minimalists
Category: Wednesday Words
Wednesday Words – Half-ass
“Don’t half-ass anything. Whatever you do, always use your full ass.”
Friday vibes: February 3
Blue skies year-round ☀️🕶
I’ll be honest, I was not sad to see January go. Between my promotion, being down one team member, and ramping up my involvement in PRSA, I spent this past month in a constant state of hustle. I don’t see it slowing down anytime soon, but I do have quite a few things to look forward to in February, including: our 2-year wedding anniversary, Dashboard Confessional (🙌🏻), and hopefully a lot more details on a new project that I hope to share soon!
Wednesday Words – Why Not Me?
“It’s traumatizing to think that a best friend could become just a friend. That’s because there’s virtually no difference between an acquaintance and a friend. But the gulf between a friend and a best friend is enormous and profound. And if I look at it that way, I think I can see the value of a wedding. If you’re my best friend and the only way I get to have dinner with you is by traveling thousands of miles, selecting a chicken or fish option, and wearing a dress in the same shade of lavender as six other girls, I will do that. I won’t love it. But I love you.”
-Mindy Kaling, Why Not Me?
Wednesday Words – Brené Brown
“We are the most in-debt, obese, addicted, and medicated adult cohort in US history. The problem is, and I learned this from the research, that you cannot selectively numb emotion. You can’t say, ‘here’s the bad stuff, here’s vulnerability, here’s grief, here’s shame, here’s fear, here’s disappointment, I don’t want to feel these. I’m gonna have a couple of beers and a banana nut muffin.’ You can’t numb those hard feelings without numbing the other affects or emotions. You can not selectively numb. So when we numb those, we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness. And then we are miserable and we are looking for purpose and meaning. And then we feel vulnerable, so then we have a couple of beers and a banana nut muffin, and it becomes this dangerous cycle.”
-Brené Brown, The Power of Vulnerability
Wednesday Words – Bittersweet
“Bittersweet is the practice of believing that we really do need both the bitter and the sweet, and that a life of nothing but sweetness rots both your teeth and your soul. Bitter is what makes us strong, what forces us to push through, what helps us earn the lines on our faces and the calluses on our hands. Sweet is nice enough, but bittersweet is beautiful, nuanced, full of depth and complexity. Bittersweet is courageous, gutsy, earthy.”
-Shauna Niequist
Wednesday Words – Home Alone
“This is Christmas.
The season of perpetual hope.”
-Home Alone, 1990
Wednesday Words – Mess
“Last year I was a trainwreck, now I’m just a mess
I’m letting go so I don’t lose myself
I’m starting to be where I need to be
I’m starting to be where I need to be”Real Friends – Mess
Wednesday Words – Came Out Swinging
“Well, I spent this whole year in airports
And the floor feels like home
Oh, at least we’re never alone
I lost track of the time zones and I’d call but you know
I’m running on empty
The late nights and the long drives start to get to me
I’m just so tired”The Wonder Years – Came Out Swinging
Wednesday Words – The Lover’s Dictionary
“I have never lived anywhere but New York or New England, but there are times when I’m talking to you and I hit a Southern vowel, or a word gets caught in a Southern truncation, and I know it’s because I’m swimming in your cadences, that you permeate my very language.”
–The Lover’s Dictionary, David Levithan
