Do Easy* 10x10s* Yoga in the Bouyard*

Yoga in the Bouyard*

In Hancock, there's a great place called Small Craft to drink beers and sit in adirondack chairs in a expansive lawn overlooking the bridge, sailboats, and the town of Houghton rising across the water.  Small Craft shares a border with Takka Saunas.  This sign was in the bathroom.  It indicates the coming together of a number of things: yoga, sauna, good craft beer, being outside, a community, a sense of humor.  Cost is nothing!  Just tip the instructor.  It's good for everyone -- Takka, Small Craft, the Instructor, the community -- and all it takes is the gifting of the space from Small Craft and the volunteering of the instructor.  Maybe Small Craft pays the instructor a little?  Maybe s/he just works for tips.  But it creates a little positive "gift economy" -- similar to bike benefits in Madison and similar to the the benefits of bringing food from grocery store waste to people in need (and specifically the "buy one for a friend" model described here.). I love these little economies that create community!

Do Easy*

From Rob Walker and Gus Van Sant (film) and, originally, Williams S. Burroughs (link): Do Easy, or D.E.

D.E. is a way of doing. D.E. simply means doing whatever you do in the easiest most relaxed way you can manage, which is also the quickest and most efficient way, as you will find as you advance in D.E. You can start right now tidying up your flat, moving furniture or books, washing dishes, making tea, sorting papers. Don’t fumble, jerk, grab an object. Drop cool possessive fingers onto it, like a gentle old cop making a soft arrest.

10x10s*

July 25th is the 61st day of the Summer 100.  Summer 100 is an artificial framing of the "100 days" of summer vacation.  (It's actually far shorter than that ... I just started on the first day after Memorial Day (and I had a week of school to do) and ended 100 days later, which is Aug 31 (and by that time I'll have been daily at work for a month!)).  

To work with my ADHD tendencies and struggles with finishing things, I've tried a variety of "10x10" ideas throughout the years...   I've also called them "short habits."  The idea is to build a habit over time and don't give up on "great ideas" after just a couple days.  It is a cousin to things I've found online like the 100 Day Project or Austin Kleon's printed calendars to complete a project in a month (maybe he calls them "suck less"?). Here's my "HTML 10x10 coding project".  Here's my previous "Watercolors 10x10."  Both of these involved both learning/taking notes from the internet/YouTube, then following along.  (The watercolor one was from August 2023).  Here's a "basement workout 10x10" I reported on.  Here's the beginning of Gardening 10x10 - a list of 10 videos about gardening projects.... I might keep these just in a "Scrapbook" now.

Here's a weird one from last year that never got anywhere: 

1. index cards 10x10 (p.88) (10 meditation teachers (1 per card) with ideas from them on each card; top card TOC), when I do year review, use cards to index - one card for people, music, books, do the same for teaching ideas (10 topics, 10 ideas on each), cards for "audit my shit" or 100 things I learned or interesting ideas, facts, images, 

Growing out of the related GTD process I've been developing/accumulating, which features "10 active projects from different domains; each project has 10 steps," I thought of including a few DAILY 10x10s to include in my list of 10.  

In general, these could include: listening projects, reading projects, cooking projects, menu/cookbook projects, learning projects, creative projects, physical fitness projects, writing projects.  The first couple I'm going to try include a watercolor 10x10 and a "flat feet fixing" 10x10.  Oh, yeah, also, I'm trying to do reflective birthday questions: taking 10 10-minute chunks to respond here.

I want these to feel casual and quick... build creative and foundational strength/stability habits into my life that are as easy as brushing my teeth.