Gender Jumper

Revisit the Tao Te Ching. This is the closest thing to a sacred text I know, but a few months ago I started to find flaws. Rather than exploring those flaws and developing a yes/and attitude toward it OR outright rejecting it and contemplating why I didn't see or recognize them sooner, I just kind of set it down and haven't looked back. And I think I need to be more deliberate than that.

Rake up a bag of leaves a week. My ambitions are not great, but I would like to keep the invasive bushes out of my front yard and continue to bag up the several years' worth of leaves that have accumulated (many of which were brushed off the roof last summer and did more harm than good to my yard). I should also decide what to do with all the decorative rocks I pulled in the spring.

Game more (as long as it is relaxing). Maybe I'll get to Final Fantasy 2-X or maybe I'll just poke around the old NES/SNES games on my partner's Switch. There have been phases of my life when I did some of my best thinking/healing with a controller in my hand. You can't bootstrap consciousness by thinking two thoughts at once, but historically I have been able to bootstrap inner peace.

Listen through my CD albums. I recently reorganized all 300+ and found many that I'd forgotten about or missed because my previous system centered favorites (which made sense at the time; I was not in a good place and I needed my music to be consistently affirming and my decisions easy).

Create randomly and affectionately. I'm trying to be a little less project-oriented and bring playfulness back.

Cultivate laughter. I really want to emphasize humor right now. I simply know no other way through this.