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The loud and bright November sun screaming through my windows doesn\u2019t seem appropriate for what\u2019s happening in the world right now. It\u2019s 9am and I am sitting at my desk, trying to focus and get the day started. Around me, notes, post-its and scraps of paper are piling up. Lots of ideas and fun projects I want to tackle. It seems that this month, as we\u2018re all asked to stay at home as much as we can, could be the right time to do it! It seems.<\/p>\n
This year though, I often feel like I\u2019ve unlearned everything. How do you start a personal project? How do people write?<\/em> How do you manage life without any sort of structure? Comparing all my freedom with what I actually do with it, I tend go get slightly disappointed in myself. I could do anything, really, but nothing feels good enough. All I\u00a0spend my time with is solving Sudokus.<\/p>\n Not everything is bad though. I\u2019ve been involved in some really interesting client projects, I\u2019ve been on the phone with friends more frequently, and how nice is it to find joy in simple things like a sunny autumn walk these days?!<\/p>\n Re-reading a newsletter I sent to you exactly one year ago (\u201cIf you\u2019re going through hell, keep going<\/a>\u201d) also eases my mind a bit: Maybe it\u2019s just November that emits these weird vibes. I generally take ease in finding reasons that are out of my hands. Destiny! I\u2019m pretty sure something is in some sort of retrograde or a weird sun or moon or whatever flying luminary out there is involved if things don\u2019t go as planned. Whiny millennial voice: \u201cNot everything is our fault!<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n \u2733\ufe0e \u2733\ufe0e \u2733\ufe0e<\/p>\n The climate catastrophe sure is though. I watched David Attenborough\u2019s new Netflix documentary<\/a> \u201cA Life on Our Planet\u201d and can recommend it (which usually isn\u2019t the case with Netflix documentaries, I often find them gimmicky).<\/p>\n If you want to zone out from the world\u2019s disasters for a short moment, the New York Times \u201cElection Distractor<\/a>\u201d is the perfect site for you.<\/p>\n And, as I learned while reading last November\u2019s issue again, looking at the past and finding the good and healthy stuff in it can also help to cope with things. I flipped through my Live Photos from this year\u2019s summer and made a very short video from them. Watch it here.<\/a><\/p>\n This letter\u2019s headline is from Miranda July\u2019s 2011\u00a0movie \u201cThe Future\u201d. I\u2019m looking forward to seeing her new film \u201cKajillionaire<\/a>\u201d once cinemas are open again.<\/p>\n \u2733\ufe0e \u2733\ufe0e \u2733\ufe0e<\/p>\n If you have adequate tips to stay productive, or any reasons to avoid it and get carried away, please send them my way. My inbox is open for all sorts of diversions! Stay healthy, distracted, and be gentle with yourself and others.<\/p>\n (If you enjoy content like this: I send it out as a (irregular) monthly newsletter called <\/em>Christel\u2019s Corner.\u00a0Sign up for it here<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The loud and bright November sun screaming through my windows doesn\u2019t seem appropriate for what\u2019s happening in the world right now. It\u2019s 9am and I am sitting at my desk, trying to focus and get the day started. Around me, notes, post-its and scraps of paper are piling up. Lots of ideas and fun projects … 072020: I Don\u2019t Know Anything, I\u2019m Just a Rock in the Sky<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1206,1200],"tags":[44,42,41,40,3,39,2],"class_list":["post-2362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christels-corner","category-gefuehlslagen","tag-christels-corner","tag-diary","tag-english","tag-newsletter","tag-schreiben","tag-tagebuch","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2365,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions\/2365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christowski.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}