| Hello friend, Bruh! I can’t believe I forgot to send out a newsletter yesterday! Sheesh… I did a maker’s market in Alpharetta (some of you met me there for the first time) and got home and made some gnocchi and went into a food coma while watching Youtube. My bad. I saw a video on how if you get a nose job you’ll have to change the whole rest of your face because the rest of your face won’t match. Not that I wanted a nose job before, but now I definitely don’t – anyway let’s get back on topic Markets are kinda tough because you have to schlep all your wares to the market and sit there and play complicated mind games to detach from the outcome while also knowing you care deeply about the outcome. But they’re also really nice because they give you an excuse to do something we almost never do: sit and wait. For me, I can’t go on my phone too much because my payment processor is on my phone, so if it dies no more payments for me. So I go back and forth between reading and journaling. Then, sometimes, I look up and someone is standing at my booth, so I talk to that person. As I sit and write in my journal, I’m able to comb through the ideas I’ve picked up recently and critically examine them. Idk about you, but I’m a sponge for ideas. Also, I’m very gullible. That is why it’s imperative for me to go through the ideas I’ve collected lately and judge them. Some people can judge ideas at first glance, but my processing time is slower and I need to try ideas on for a period before I can judge if I agree with them or not. Yesterday, at the market, as I was sitting there I realized that metaphorically it was 100° out and I was wearing 12 t shirts, 2 hoodies, a blazer, a cardigan, and a winter parka. As I journaled, I began to take those layers off and examine them one by one in the mirror, so that I could go about my life in weather-appropriate clothing. me burning up wearing too many un-vetted ideas The main parka I took off was an idea I had absorbed about money. The idea was that money is a direct reflection of how much value you have provided to other people. I believed this for a few months. MONTHS! I wish I could say it was shorter, especially because upon examining this idea it’s terrible: plastic surgeons do more good than oncologists, drug dealers provide more value than school teachers, etc. etc. If doctors in Cambodia do less good than doctors in Canada, providing the same care and seeing the same number of patients, then Canadian lives must be worth more than Cambodian lives. You see how this is so problematic? By thinking this way, if I get hit by a car (God forbid) and the driver has to pay me, I have done more good in society than a soup kitchen volunteer. It literally makes no sense. This video helped me understand why I thought this way and why others do too. Let me not go on for too long but are there any ideas you tried on lately that didn’t fit? Feel free to respond to this email and let me know. Main takeaway: money is not a reflection of the amount of good you’ve done. Update: My kiddush cups are coming along – I am testing glazes right now – I’ll make a pre-order site as soon as I can! Loovee,Liliana |