Good morning from New York City. I’m contemplating today what it means to live my life out loud and to change my mind a lot, which is something I do. I say one thing and do another, or I say something and then I change my mind. The truth of the matter is I’m a verbal processor, and I’m not one of those people that plays my cards close to my chest. I talk out loud. I hear myself. I catch myself, and I’m willing to change my mind. Sometimes I feel embarrassed about it, and sometimes I realize I catch people off guard, or maybe some time has passed and they’re like oh wait, I thought you said that. And yes, it can be embarrassing, but that’s just who I am and I’ve always been that way.

I happened to stumble into a reading from the Book of Awakening by Mark Nepo. This is a book I quote often because I love it. The reading today is called Breaking Patterns and the quote is by Walt Whitman. It says “if I contradict myself, I contradict myself. I contain multitudes.”

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