VANCOUVER - Don’t save the candles. Use the fancy napkins to wipe your mouth instead of a paper towel. Take your almost 32-year-old knees for a run, even if it’s raining and you don’t really want to. Especially if it’s raining and you don’t really want to. And email your grandma just to tell her you’re thinking about her. Grab a late dinner at Pepino’s simply because they had an open table. Refill the hummingbird feeders with fresh sugar water instead of leaving them to rot. DM people with blue names on Wikipedia and ask them for an interview. So what if they say no? They could also say yes??? And for god’s sake quote Goose in the newsletter because how could you go a whole year without quoting Goose?
“J’accuse!”
Practice what you call generous abundance. Consume the things you’ve been lucky enough to receive instead of waiting for some perfect moment that is perpetually delayed. Turn on the gas fireplace for Stu so he can warm his old bones. Spritz the Aesop cologne Leah bought you on your wrist (and be sure to talk with your hands). Give Kate your New Yorker login. Make things and share them with people instead of burying them in a drawer. Don’t hoard your ideas. Don’t hoard your time. Remember, “Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you.”
There is no point in being precious. Strike the match. Light the wick. Leave behind nothing but ash on walls, an altar of molten wax on the table.
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