How To Beat The Blues, Five Things, and Photo of a Cow.
Good morning!
Five things I want to share:
A productivity tool that we can all use.
Before Sunset is an AI-powered productivity tool you should check out. The free version is ample for most of us.
I’m not sure how to describe this tool. It is like a search engine after a dozen Red Bulls. You have to see it in action and play with it a bit, and the ideas you will come up with on how to use this thing will blow you away. Research on steroids. They call it Albus.
Speaking of productivity: You just gotta watch this. Understanding how to get stuff done masterclass.
Nancy Wilson was a jazz singer, the first jazz singer I fell in love with. This is one of her hits. It’s only three minutes long. A story to be told. She treats her voice like an instrument with lots of small, emotionally driven quirks. Take a moment.
Online photo editor
Photopea: If you are ever somewhere without access to Photoshop or Affinity and you need to do a quick edit, there are a lot of choices. This one is pretty good and it is free. Always good to have backups. And backups to your backups. (Google Photos is set to open up a complete suite of full editing tools soon. They are going to be very cool.)
It was the first time she had driven on a dirt road.
In fact, it was the first time she had ever driven a car at all.
We were in New Mexico on a father/daughter holiday, and I decided that it was time to teach her the skills of a road warrior.
On a deserted country road, so maybe more like a road warrior-ette.
She moved the seat up, fixed the rearview mirrors as she had seen me do a million times, put her foot on the brake, and eased the silver Sonata into drive.
“Press the gas pedal”, I said.
She did.
Sonatas gotta lot of power.
We experienced it quickly.
“Slow down,” I said quietly, and she did.
She was a fast learner, and I let her drive for a couple of hours. We crisscrossed an area full of ghost towns and deserted farmhouses. She would ease to a stop, I would get out, explore with my camera, get back in, and off we went.
The mix of joy and terror when she passed her first oncoming traffic still makes me laugh.
She was so excited.
Most of us remember learning to drive and the sense of freedom that comes along with it.
I will never forget that father-daughter moment.
Oh, and I made a photo of a cow.
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