Good morning from Martha’s Vineyard. What’s on my mind this morning is spontaneity and ruling things in versus ruling them out, and here’s why. I just got a fabulous voicemail from my friend Dana. She’s up in Rhode Island visiting her mother, and the mother is a bit of a chatterbox. Dana and I are both lovers of the morning quiet and the bird song and toiling, and she said, I realized that I was getting irritated, so I grabbed the dog and walked down to the beach. But here’s the good part of her message. She said I couldn’t resist Constance. I jumped in the water fully clothed.

I just love that story because I can just hear the things going through her head. It was early. She hadn’t been in the water yet. She didn’t know what to expect. She didn’t have a towel. She was probably going to be cold. Yet she heeded that little voice and instead of ruling it out, she ruled it in, and she just jumped in.

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