Saturday, August 19, 2017

memo to my future self


Dear Future Self,

Of course you like coming back to Santa Fe - to enjoy the quiet, the coyote that trots by, the sunset, and to take the chance to water the remaining plants, and replenish the humming bird feeder.  But.  You really don't want to do so again because you're giving a keynote in another country in a few days' time, and you have left all the notes that you've carefully gathered this summer and that you need for completing the talk on your desk top, do you?  Particularly when it's Indian Market weekend in Santa Fe, which has a mesmerisingly bad effect on flight prices and car rental costs.

But yes, indubitably, even if you will have to get up early to fly back to Los Angeles again, it's great to have a quiet evening in which to write, notes by one's side.  And at least I can gather up various other forgotten objects - a tee-shirt in the drier, some granola, two pencil cases ...

with curiosity as to whether you'll take this advice to heart,

Current Self.

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