Digital Strategies

I woke up this morn­ing and it went like this and this. It had some­thing to do with a retired base­ball player. Or at least I fig­ured he was. But he was our friend. The last thing he said to me was “you can do any­thing if you believe you can.” So I got up at 7:10 instead of hit­ting snooze for 30 min­utes. I made oat­meal, cleaned the kitchen, took a shower, ate a plum. I really think this is what he wanted for me. To feel good about get­ting up and going to work.

“Hand shak­ing can sig­nal a greet­ing, farewell, agree­ment, acknowl­edg­ment, respect, or clo­sure of an arrangement.”

It doesn’t sound as legit as it did in my half asleep logic. I felt, at that moment, the uni­verse and I were ready. I wasn’t ready to fight fires, save babies, or cure can­cer. But I could make oatmeal.

I wish I could say it was like this, but it was more like this.