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Daily Good Will — with Kris Evergreen (Evergreen Echoes)

Daily Good Will — with Kris Evergreen (Evergreen Echoes)

di Kris Evergreen

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Day 257: Daily Goodwill

I forgot to return a phone call last week. Someone left me a voicemail on Wednesday. I saw it. I meant to call back. Then it just sat there on my to-do list getting older and weirder. By Saturday I was convinced they probably hated me. By Sunday I realized they'd probably forgotten all about it. I called this morning. They answered on the second ring. Oh hey. What's up. Like nothing had happened. We do this all the time. We drop something small and then spend three days building a courtroom in o

Day 256: Daily Goodwill

So we all do this thing with cooking that nobody really talks about. You stand in your kitchen. You open the fridge. You look at what's in there. And then you close it. Open your phone. Start scrolling through delivery apps. Not because you're lazy. Not because you don't know how to cook. Because deciding what to make feels harder than just ordering something.

Day 255: Daily Goodwill

So the junk drawer in your kitchen has opinions about you. It knows what you've been putting off. Every time you shove something in there and close it quick. Every time you dig around for batteries and find three expired coupons and a mystery key instead. The drawer isn't judging you exactly. But it's definitely keeping score. Most of us have one of these spaces. The drawer. The corner of the counter. The chair in the bedroom that's technically furniture but actually functions as a clothing repo

Day 254: Daily Goodwill

I was at the pharmacy yesterday. Waiting in line. The person ahead of me was buying exactly two things. A bottle of ibuprofen and a bag of cough drops. The cashier said have a good day. The person said you too. And I thought about that exchange the whole way home. Because that's most of our days. Moving through necessary stops. Picking up what we need. Brief exchanges with people we'll probably never see again.

Day 253: Daily Goodwill

So there's this thing we all believe about planning. We think looking ahead requires a big block of time. A Sunday afternoon with coffee and a journal. Maybe an hour after work when your brain is fresh.

Day 252: Daily Goodwill

So I've been thinking about the space between things. Not the calendar gap between meetings. The actual mental zone you pass through when you finish one thing and start another. Like when you close your laptop after a work call and then immediately open it again for a different kind of work. Or when you finish making dinner and ten seconds later you're supposed to be helping with homework.

Day 251: Daily Goodwill

I saw someone at the hardware store yesterday with a lamp. An old desk lamp. The kind with the adjustable arm and the heavy base. She was standing in the electrical aisle looking at replacement cords. Not buying a new lamp. Fixing the one she had. It's Tuesday. The steady day. The day that doesn't get a lot of fanfare. But it's also the day where things get repaired. Where you actually follow through on the thing you said you'd handle. Here's today's advice. When something breaks, your brain imm

Day 250: Daily Goodwill

It's Labor Day. A holiday built around honoring work by not doing it. Which is a funny contradiction until you realize that's exactly the point. Work matters. So does stepping back from it.

Day 249: Daily Goodwill

Early September has this interesting energy to it. The mornings are cooler now. You can feel fall starting to edge in. There's this back-to-school vibe in the air even if you haven't been in a classroom for years. Something about this time of year makes you want to reset. Buy new notebooks. Organize a drawer. Start fresh.

Day 248: Daily Goodwill

September has this sneaky way of feeling like a second January. Even if you're not in school anymore. Even if your calendar doesn't technically reset. There's something in the air that says fresh start. The mornings are a little cooler now. You pull on a sweatshirt instead of dealing with the sun at seven a.m. The light hits different. Everything feels like it's waking up from a long nap. And with that comes the urge to suddenly get your life together. Again.

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