🧩 TREEcap 10–13 March + PUNZLE 2

First, an apology. I need to take two weeks off TREE. I’ve got a major work deadline coming up at the end of March and I’m delivering a workshop on self-publishing on the 25th. Those two things will be taking all my attention between now and then. I’ll be back in your inboxes on Monday 31 March.

Monday

People want boundaries, clean breaks, delineations. These things are imaginary. In reality, you flow from one thing to the next. You ooze along. There is crossover… Your life is not a succession of many things. (People tell it that way because explaining the ooze takes too long.) Your life is one multi-stranded, overlapping, interconnected complex web of a thing. When you look close enough, the divisions disappear.

Teresa replied: ‘This one just made me feel connected and that felt good. Thank you!’

I shared Doechii’s latest single Such a tune. Heard it in a shop this week. 33.5 million streams on Spotify as of Thursday evening.

Tuesday

When life gives you lemons… What’s good here? Where is the opportunity? What do you have to be grateful for? You always have a ton of things to be grateful for. Also, Whinge. Moan. Complain about the unfairness. It’s totally okay to get the feelings out of your system first.

Wednesday

Trying to run your life based on your emotions is like trying to steer your car with your fuel gauge.

Thursday

You’ve seen people go from vegan to full carnivore and loudly declare that anyone foolish enough to not eat animals all day is an idiot sheep on the way to slaughter. Or vice versa. They leave their religion and declare that atheism is the only way for sane people. Or vice versa. Ditto for politics, medicine, business, relationships. Especially relationships.

Don’t rush from an old thing into a new thing past an invitation to do slow, deep internal work. You might be rushing past because the invitation promises uncertainty.

The answer is the name of a Hollywood movie star. The clue is:

That guy is really good at scarves.

Answers in the comments. You’re going to feel so clever if you get this.

Emmeline has a new song out. Automatic share. (It’s not on YouTube yet.)

Happy weekend
Jeff