every week it's a week

It remains a comforting truth in my life that every week, it’s a week. (Also every day it’s a day, every year it’s a year, and every moon it’s a moon). I’ve spent a large part of the last 4 years randomly selecting a slip of paper out of a jar at the start of every week, as a way of clarifying what week this week is. As it turns out, this can be an incredible way of making decisions, encouraging antics, exploring new things, finding new lifelong interests, and changing the course of your life in profound ways. Thanks for reading Reckon 1000 Acres! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. It all started on the gap year I took from college over covid—I didn’t want to do Zoom school, but also didn’t know what I wanted to spend a year doing instead… I had lots of interests to potentially explore and didn’t know where to start. My solution was to develop a system that I called the Epic Cycle (I had just read the Iliad, so the name was a pun on the Homeric epic poem colle

It remains a comforting truth in my life that every week, it’s a week. (Also every day it’s a day, every year it’s a year, and every moon it’s a moon). I’ve spent a large part of the last 4 years randomly selecting a slip of paper out of a jar at the start of every week, as a way of clarifying what week this week is. As it turns out, this can be an incredible way of making decisions, encouraging antics, exploring new things, finding new lifelong interests, and changing the course of your life in profound ways. Thanks for reading Reckon 1000 Acres! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and su