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#34 You are doing it. This is the It.

It's already started, you just didn't know

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I spent last week back east getting all the dangerous trees removed from the land I live on; they keep falling down. Here’s my favorite Hemlock being murdered. RIP.

Last week an author using some of my words in her next book sent me a legal release, where you review a quote and agree you said it or that it can be published at all, or something like that. Here’s the quote.

'“We are always, forever doing the things we imagine in our hearts. We have always started long before we even realized we started. The gestation periods can be long and un-notable; the blocks are the path. If you are feeling like you aren't doing it, or like you're waiting for the real work to begin, please remember in this moment, you are doing it. There is no other way through to it then the way you have gone, are going…You are doing it. This is it.”

I was impressed. (With myself.) I replied "Damn that's good. Yes. Approved." As if it were someone else's wisdom and clarity and sentence structure I admired. Which in …

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