Letter to you | June 2024

Hi there, I hope this finds you well.

I went on a trip in June and took a red-eye flight - and found out it's still tough for me to fall asleep on a plane. The sunrise was stunning, though. I went to the local rose garden and Japanese garden while I visited. On the way up to the gardens, my Lyft driver showed me his favorite house in the area and how it's so close to the garden and overlooks the whole city. Leaving the garden for a restaurant my friend recommended, another Lyft driver told me about his ex in New York and how they've maintained a great relationship after breaking up. These conversations are almost as fun as the trip to the gardens.

I finished reading the Craft Coffee book I wrote to you about last month. I also finished listening to Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte. My biggest takeaway is the analogy of fruit and notes. We don't store fresh fruit, dried fruit, fruit juice, and frozen fruit in the same place. Thus, we shouldn't store and organize our notes by their origin. Instead, we should organize ideas by where they are going. There is usually some lapse between learning and implementing and benefiting from a new organizational method. I'll keep you posted.

The other two fantastic books I've finished reading are Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson, and Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies by Elizabeth Winkler. Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone is the definition of a page-turner murder mystery book. It still surprises me in the last two pages of the book - it really makes me want to read more fiction books now. Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies dives into investigating the Shakespeare authorship question. I wasn't aware of the authorship question before reading this book, and it makes me want to learn more about it. Winkler is quite even-keeled and funny at the same time. I attended a book event while reading the book, and it was fantastic. A Baconian dressed in costume was definitely one of the highlights.

June was a turning point for me in some sense. I'm unsure how/I'm not ready to articulate it. I think that's okay, right?

Yours Truly :)