Sitting on Santa's Lap
Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of the Sunday Bagel. Read the newspaper and you’ll have anxiety. Read this newsletter and you might just feel a bit better. To start things off I’ll share a short story with you.
Sitting on Santa’s Lap
“What do you want for Christmas?”, Santa asked the girl while she sat on his lap at the mall. “A pony”, she replied.
“If I had a dime for every time a little girl asked for a pony, I'd be a rich man, like Tevye”.
But it was true, she wanted a pony for Christmas, and not long after that moment in time, her family arranged for her to have a pony. She was enrolled in equestrian lessons and started to compete in the provincial championships.
By the time she was 18 years old, she was competing with Team Canada in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
The world could barely hold itself together after global warming had completed its cooking of the planet, but that didn't matter as she smashed the record, taking home gold for the country.
Damn right she wanted a pony for Christmas, Santa.
Three Ideas from My Notebooks
1. Joggers seem to be the people who find all the dead bodies in TV mysteries. The early bird doesn’t just get the worm, it finds the corpse.
2. You are never in the mood to do the work, so just accept that the mood will take shape after you get started.
3. When things seem to fall apart or feel chaotic, realize that they were never on solid ground to begin with. And when you realize this you just might become liberated from the unrealistic expectation that the world owes you anything1.
This Week’s Track: Whiskey Tree
What to expect from this track: Music for abandoned, small towns in the country. A great track to put on with headphones before nodding off into any new state of mind.
Find it on Spotify, Apple Music or search most streaming services to save it to your library.
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If you’re ever feeling unwell or just a little unsettled, make sure to combat the Sunday Scaries with a Sunday Bagel.
I have been on a cream cheese kick lately but you can put egg or tuna on your bagel. Even peanut butter or just plain butter works. Everything and anything goes. The bagel will never judge you.
See you next week,
Elliott
Read When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron for more on this philosophy.