# 20240822 Had a feature concept leap back to the top of the stack. Realized that I no longer felt solidly about it, despite the flow I created it from. Registered the urge to demur about the concern, and stay the course so as to not stir the pot unnecessarily. Registered that this was a super outdated response. Spoke the concern, accepted that I *had* a concern, and allowed the tension to exist. Started getting ideas about how else to solve the problem, about what other feature concepts could fit the bill and do it *better*. A cafe on State Street exists now that didn't previously for me. This morning I made a pot of pu erh, getting to the last of my store of the specific tea leaves I've been working with. Without any reluctance whatsoever (!!), I experienced happiness about the experience of having it, gratitude for having *had* all the experiences I've had with it, and a kind of *dare* aimed at the universe to keep my pu erh vibes manifested even as I run out of the stuff I had. I went back later to put on water to do a second steeping of those leaves. While the water heated, I came back out to the living room — a friend of ours is over, and had laid out treasures from her last trip to show me. One of those treasures was a *sticky rice pu ehr*, and the water I already had heating was used for a pot of *that* instead. :) I'm pretty sure that the better I get at staying close to the line of emerging aliveness the more consistent this stuff will get. My life is already predominantly anchored through specific points of incredible emergence — learning Ruby when I did, getting into Shopify stuff when I did, meeting Abe when I did, that kind of thing. The more I stay close to that center on a minute-by-minute basis, the more this kind of synchronicity will pick up. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://www.isaacbowen.com/2024/08/22.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.