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Episode 397: The Rhythms That Help Me Think, Write, and Cook · Cookbook Love Podcast

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  Speaker: You are listening to the Cookbook Love Podcast with
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  Speaker: Maggie Greene, episode number three ninety seven.
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  Speaker: Welcome to the cookbook Love
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  Speaker: Podcast, a podcast that
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  Speaker: celebrates cookbook readers,
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  Speaker: buyers, collectors, writers, and
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  Speaker: clubs.
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  Speaker: And now your host, cookbook
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  Speaker: author, culinary dietitian, and
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  Speaker: cookbook writing coach, Maggie
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  Speaker: Green.
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  Speaker: Hi, everybody.
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  Speaker: Welcome back to another episode of the cookbook Love podcast.
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  Speaker: How's everybody doing today?
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  Speaker: All is well here this morning.
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  Speaker: I'm actually recording this
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  Speaker: podcast on a Monday, which is a
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  Speaker: little bit unusual for me, but
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  Speaker: last week was the week after
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  Speaker: Easter.
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  Speaker: And the older I get, the more I like to treat that week like the
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  Speaker: week after Christmas.
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  Speaker: Um, and my faith tradition.
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  Speaker: Being Roman Catholic, I actually believe it's a bigger holiday
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  Speaker: for us and a bigger celebration what we're actually celebrating.
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  Speaker: And I've often wondered why society doesn't treat it the
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  Speaker: same as Christmas.
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  Speaker: And I think it's because it
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  Speaker: doesn't quite have the
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  Speaker: commercial appeal.
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  Speaker: There's not as much gift giving.
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  Speaker: But last week I took some time just to, um, enjoy my house,
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  Speaker: enjoy my time here.
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  Speaker: Warren was actually out of town for most of the week.
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  Speaker: And, um, I want to talk a little
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  Speaker: bit about today, some things
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  Speaker: that I've been thinking about
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  Speaker: related to, um, some actions and
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  Speaker: things that I do that have
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  Speaker: really helped me in this age of
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  Speaker: a, I thought a lot about this
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  Speaker: because in my business, I've
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  Speaker: often wondered if I ought to
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  Speaker: teach some AI strategies or
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  Speaker: tactics.
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  Speaker: And I know a lot of the coaches that I see teaching online or
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  Speaker: talking a lot about AI.
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  Speaker: In Jane Friedman's publishing
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  Speaker: newsletter, she talks a lot
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  Speaker: about AI.
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  Speaker: Of course, in the publishing
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  Speaker: industry, AI is not very fondly
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  Speaker: looked upon.
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  Speaker: Publishers want books that are written by people.
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  Speaker: Lived experiences.
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  Speaker: Things that they know.
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  Speaker: Or it could be stories that
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  Speaker: they've created out of their own
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  Speaker: imagination.
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  Speaker: So I want to talk to you today about some things that I do here
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  Speaker: in my own life.
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  Speaker: I don't want this podcast to
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  Speaker: really sound like a list of
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  Speaker: things you should do, but I just
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  Speaker: want to share what I do and how
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  Speaker: these actions have helped me to
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  Speaker: continue to stay grounded in the
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  Speaker: work that I do and to continue
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  Speaker: to generate content, including
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  Speaker: this podcast, coaching for my
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  Speaker: students, writing that I do for
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  Speaker: books that I'm working on, and
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  Speaker: just generally the output that I
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  Speaker: have in my life and the things
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  Speaker: that I'm able to do for other
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  Speaker: people.
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  Speaker: And it's not that part of it's not based on AI and it's not
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  Speaker: faster and it's not more.
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  Speaker: Again, it just makes me feel more grounded and more connected
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  Speaker: because it actually helps me to think for myself.
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  Speaker: So I want to share what I do, to think and to write and to cook
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  Speaker: without relying on AI.
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  Speaker: And some things that I've noticed over time related to
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  Speaker: these rhythms that I have.
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  Speaker: Um, I've talked about some of
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  Speaker: these things before, not quite
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  Speaker: in this context about having
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  Speaker: them presented to you here all
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  Speaker: at one time, but I thought it
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  Speaker: would be a good time to offer
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  Speaker: you these tips, because I know
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  Speaker: for me that it is tempting to
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  Speaker: use AI and outsource a lot of
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  Speaker: what I'm going to talk about to
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  Speaker: AI, but I think that we're doing
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  Speaker: ourselves a huge disservice as
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  Speaker: humans with our reasoning
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  Speaker: capacity, our ability to think,
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  Speaker: our ability to decide, our
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  Speaker: ability to move forward with
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  Speaker: things that we want to move
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  Speaker: forward with.
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  Speaker: If we let AI do all of the work for us.
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  Speaker: So this matters to me because I know a lot of you maybe are
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  Speaker: wanting to perhaps write a book or get published.
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  Speaker: Also, because I talk to people
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  Speaker: on the podcast who have written
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  Speaker: books.
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  Speaker: And, um, writing a cookbook is not just about getting our
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  Speaker: recipes on the page.
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  Speaker: That is something that AI could totally do for you.
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  Speaker: But I think that writing books is really about how you think.
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  Speaker: It's about how you make
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  Speaker: decisions, and it's about how
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  Speaker: you stay connected to yourself
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  Speaker: and to what you're creating over
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  Speaker: time.
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  Speaker: So let's start first of all with writing.
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  Speaker: Um, I think you all maybe know,
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  Speaker: or if you're new to the podcast,
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  Speaker: you might not know that every
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  Speaker: morning I sit down and write in
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  Speaker: a spiral notebook, three pages
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  Speaker: by hand.
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  Speaker: I use, um, just a Bic pen and a spiral notebook.
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  Speaker: I order them in packs of six from Amazon.
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  Speaker: And, uh, it's a practice from
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  Speaker: Julia Cameron called Morning
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  Speaker: Pages.
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  Speaker: There's not really any structure to it except that I write three
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  Speaker: pages, and generally it takes me no more than thirty minutes.
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  Speaker: The goal here is not to produce
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  Speaker: anything that is useful, and I'm
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  Speaker: not editing or organizing my
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  Speaker: thoughts necessarily.
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  Speaker: I'm just writing whatever is on my mind.
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  Speaker: And I'm going to read to you from Julia Cameron's book, her
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  Speaker: description of Morning Pages.
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  Speaker: I want to give her credit again for this tool.
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  Speaker: I know a lot of my students also
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  Speaker: use it, and people that are
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  Speaker: working on creative projects use
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  Speaker: it.
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  Speaker: But she describes morning pages as every morning she says to set
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  Speaker: your alarm thirty minutes early and write longhand, three, eight
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  Speaker: and a half by eleven inch pages about anything and everything
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  Speaker: that comes to mind.
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  Speaker: I always say I would never stand between anyone in their morning
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  Speaker: coffee, but try to get to the page as quickly as possible.
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  Speaker: Don't spend forty five minutes brewing the perfect cup.
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  Speaker: The faster you get to the page,
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  Speaker: the better the pages will work
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  Speaker: for you.
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  Speaker: Avoid the phone, the computer, and email until you have
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  Speaker: finished your pages.
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  Speaker: The pages act as a windshield wiper, clearing away what stands
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  Speaker: between you and your day.
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  Speaker: And that whole thought of morning pages being a windshield
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  Speaker: wiper, clearing away what stands between you and your day?
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  Speaker: What that means to me is that often what stands between us and
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  Speaker: the day we want to have is what's on our mind when we wake
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  Speaker: up in the morning and morning.
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  Speaker: Pages are a way to process that.
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  Speaker: Get that out on paper.
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  Speaker: Do some thinking out loud and
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  Speaker: some processing and clear your
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  Speaker: mind so that you can have the
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  Speaker: morning that you want to have
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  Speaker: now.
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  Speaker: Um. I think one of the greatest inventions for mankind, if you
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  Speaker: drink coffee in the morning, is a coffee pot that you can
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  Speaker: automatically set up to brew your coffee, do it at night
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  Speaker: before you go to bed.
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  Speaker: And then when you wake up, your coffee's brewed.
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  Speaker: I literally get out of bed, go to the bathroom, pour my coffee,
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  Speaker: and head to the spot where I'm going to do my writing.
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  Speaker: Um, for me right now, it's in a room, um, the area adjacent to
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  Speaker: where I work.
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  Speaker: I have a couch that I sit on.
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  Speaker: My cats often join me there.
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  Speaker: My two cats I adopted last fall,
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  Speaker: and I get my writing done often
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  Speaker: before.
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  Speaker: Uh, you know, I take my shower or anything like that.
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  Speaker: Then I take take a walk or.
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  Speaker: Take my shower, get ready for the day.
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  Speaker: But morning pages always comes first.
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  Speaker: If I get distracted and start
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  Speaker: doing other things, it just
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  Speaker: doesn't happen.
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  Speaker: Um. I'm very faithful to this practice.
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  Speaker: I've committed to it.
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  Speaker: Um, ask anyone that I travel
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  Speaker: with or ask people whose homes I
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  Speaker: visit when I travel if I'm ever
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  Speaker: a houseguest.
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  Speaker: Um, I know they've seen me or
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  Speaker: they know that I get up and do
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  Speaker: this and I generally don't let
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  Speaker: travel.
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  Speaker: Being in a hotel or being in
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  Speaker: someone's home, uh, stop me from
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  Speaker: doing it.
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  Speaker: It's very, uh, fruitful, productive.
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  Speaker: And I think it really helps me
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  Speaker: again to like Julia Cameron
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  Speaker: says, uh, this morning, page X
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  Speaker: is a windshield wiper clearing
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  Speaker: away what stands between you and
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  Speaker: your day.
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  Speaker: So when I start my days like this and I know what's on my
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  Speaker: mind, I can get it off my mind.
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  Speaker: It literally changes how that I move through my day.
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  Speaker: And if I think of something I
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  Speaker: need to do or think of something
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  Speaker: that I want to take action on, I
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  Speaker: just kind of keep a little list
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  Speaker: there as I'm writing and I make
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  Speaker: decisions quicker.
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  Speaker: I stay with ideas longer.
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  Speaker: I don't get caught up in as much second guessing, and I'm no
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  Speaker: longer trying to work during the day through a bunch of noise.
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  Speaker: I'm working through clarity.
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  Speaker: And, um, it's been a very important part of what I do.
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  Speaker: I highly recommend it.
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  Speaker: All credit to Julia Cameron.
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  Speaker: Um, she's been very generous with talking about this tool,
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  Speaker: sharing this tool.
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  Speaker: And I think that it's something
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  Speaker: that, uh, she deserves all the
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  Speaker: credit for.
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  Speaker: And for any person who's creative that uses her process.
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  Speaker: Um, amazing to think what we've
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  Speaker: been able to create in the world
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  Speaker: without AI because of morning
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  Speaker: pages.
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  Speaker: The second thing that's a regular part of my rhythm that's
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  Speaker: also physical is walking.
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  Speaker: I walk on most days and I
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  Speaker: noticed the days when I'm
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  Speaker: walking.
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  Speaker: My thinking is different.
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  Speaker: It's more clear.
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  Speaker: It's great to be outside, get some fresh air.
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  Speaker: Um, it's not something I force
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  Speaker: and I don't necessarily end up
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  Speaker: walking every single day, but I
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  Speaker: try not to let the weather slow
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  Speaker: me down.
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  Speaker: The only thing that really might slow me down is if I literally
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  Speaker: have a work related appointment early in the morning, I'll walk
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  Speaker: later in the afternoon.
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  Speaker: Um, sometimes in the evening.
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  Speaker: Although that's not my favorite time to walk.
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  Speaker: But walking is definitely part of my rhythm, and I think
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  Speaker: there's a connection between writing and walking, because I
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  Speaker: know that I found a way to stay connected to my thinking.
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  Speaker: And I also know that when I walk and I'm outside, I see people
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  Speaker: and opportunities crop up in my life to do things or have
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  Speaker: conversations because I'm engaging with my neighbors.
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  Speaker: So take that for what it is.
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  Speaker: Talking to people and interacting with people helps us
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  Speaker: to see opportunities and to understand and learn what people
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  Speaker: are going through in their life.
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  Speaker: And just so many good things
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  Speaker: happen when I get outside my
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  Speaker: house and I walk and I see my
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  Speaker: neighbors.
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  Speaker: So, um, that's something that's very grounding for me.
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  Speaker: And I love getting out and walking.
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  Speaker: So my preferred thing to do is
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  Speaker: get up, do my morning pages and
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  Speaker: then walk.
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  Speaker: The next thing, if I can, um, and then come home, eat
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  Speaker: breakfast, eat some breakfast, take a shower and then be ready
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  Speaker: for my day.
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  Speaker: Sometimes during the week I'll
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  Speaker: work and go into morning mass at
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  Speaker: my local parish, which I love
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  Speaker: doing also.
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  Speaker: I would do that instead of
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  Speaker: walking though, I would take my
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  Speaker: shower and go to morning mass
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  Speaker: and then come home and be ready
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  Speaker: to work.
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  Speaker: So I like doing that as well.
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  Speaker: But the walking is hugely important for me.
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  Speaker: And then the third thing is cooking.
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  Speaker: Big surprise.
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  Speaker: Um, even though we're a family of two now, all of our adult
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  Speaker: children are out of the house.
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  Speaker: Um, I was always cooking every
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  Speaker: day for them when they were
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  Speaker: younger.
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  Speaker: Uh, either Warren or I prepared a meal every single day, if not
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  Speaker: one more than one.
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  Speaker: Especially during the summer when they were home from school.
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  Speaker: But I think if we're going to be
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  Speaker: cookbook writers, we have to be
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  Speaker: cooking.
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  Speaker: And if we're going to be writing
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  Speaker: a baking book, we need to be
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  Speaker: baking.
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  Speaker: There is no way you can
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  Speaker: outsource this and write a
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  Speaker: cookbook.
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  Speaker: Everything that you want to
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  Speaker: write about becomes very real
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  Speaker: when you're in the kitchen
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  Speaker: cooking and paying attention to
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  Speaker: what you're doing, noticing what
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  Speaker: works, what doesn't work, what
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  Speaker: you would change, how, how
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  Speaker: recipes evolve.
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  Speaker: Um, writing things down as you
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  Speaker: go, capturing what's happening,
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  Speaker: giving your perspective and your
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  Speaker: recipes.
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  Speaker: A point of view in the kitchen.
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  Speaker: This is how I develop my recipes in every opportunity that I have
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  Speaker: to cook for other people.
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  Speaker: You can try something new.
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  Speaker: I have a friend who had open
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  Speaker: heart surgery a couple weeks
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  Speaker: after she got home from her
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  Speaker: surgery, I took dinner to her
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  Speaker: house and sent her a little list
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  Speaker: of things that I could cook for
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  Speaker: her, and she chose a lemon orzo
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  Speaker: chicken, and I made the recipe
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  Speaker: from my head based on something
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  Speaker: I had, excuse me done years ago,
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  Speaker: but it was really fun to go
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  Speaker: through the process of using
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  Speaker: fresh lemons, oregano, dill, um,
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  Speaker: the orzo, you know, browning the
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  Speaker: chicken.
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  Speaker: I usually use boneless chicken thighs for something like that.
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  Speaker: I even sauteed the lemon so that
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  Speaker: it was brown, cooked it all
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  Speaker: together, kind of like a chicken
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  Speaker: and rice, but it was Greek lemon
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  Speaker: orzo chicken.
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  Speaker: And, um, it was great to develop the recipe as I was cooking it
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  Speaker: and to write it down, keep track of what I was doing.
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  Speaker: And it totally makes me want to make that again or turn it into
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  Speaker: something that I could maybe use, um, more permanently.
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  Speaker: But cooking is really so, so important if you're wanting to
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  Speaker: work on a cookbook project.
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  Speaker: Um, I know for a fact that all of the people that I interview
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  Speaker: for the cookbooks that they've written did develop most of the
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  Speaker: work on their own.
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  Speaker: I can think of a few that maybe used people helping them, but,
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  Speaker: um, these people are in their kitchens cooking and writing
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  Speaker: things down and it shows.
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  Speaker: I can just tell by the types of
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  Speaker: cookbooks that they're working
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  Speaker: on.
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  Speaker: Them so you can't get around cooking.
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  Speaker: I think it's a huge part of my routine.
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  Speaker: Um, I have been using, uh, delivery for groceries if
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  Speaker: you're, um, wanting to use your time in other ways.
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  Speaker: Uh, grocery delivery, it's if it's available in your area, it
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  Speaker: works out great for us because it's actually a delivery service
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  Speaker: that comes from Kroger.
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  Speaker: It's not through Instacart or Uber Eats or anything like that.
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  Speaker: So it's really been high quality produce and quite enjoyable to
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  Speaker: be able to fill up my cart and order groceries and have them
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  Speaker: delivered to my house.
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  Speaker: Okay, so that's the third thing.
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  Speaker: And then the fourth thing is,
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  Speaker: um, regularly, I take time for
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  Speaker: myself, do a solo outing, go do
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  Speaker: something creative by myself,
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  Speaker: maybe go to a new place around
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  Speaker: town.
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  Speaker: Uh, recently what I did was there's an art center down in
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  Speaker: the, um, downtown area near where I live that offered a four
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  Speaker: week lino cut printing class.
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  Speaker: And it was on Tuesday evening, so I signed up for that.
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  Speaker: Thoroughly enjoyed the linocut
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  Speaker: class, learning how to carve out
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  Speaker: the, um, the pad and then do the
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  Speaker: printing.
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  Speaker: And, uh, it was very fun to not
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  Speaker: only design and print something
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  Speaker: that I drew, but also to see
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  Speaker: what other people in the class
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  Speaker: were doing.
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  Speaker: There was everything from animals.
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  Speaker: Some people did radishes, citrus
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  Speaker: slices, trees, um, anything that
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  Speaker: you can imagine, a woodcut or a
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  Speaker: linocut print being made into
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  Speaker: flowers.
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  Speaker: Um, the instructor did an owl and then we learned how to apply
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  Speaker: watercolors for background or watercolors for features on top
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  Speaker: of the linocut.
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  Speaker: Um, so it was really fun.
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  Speaker: And that's totally different
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  Speaker: than writing or cooking, but
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  Speaker: again, very tactile and it's
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  Speaker: quite fascinating.
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  Speaker: Quite a few younger women in the
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  Speaker: class, they were taking the
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  Speaker: class because they enjoy getting
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  Speaker: off their phones and going out
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  Speaker: and being with groups of people,
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  Speaker: creating something with their
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  Speaker: hands.
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  Speaker: And one of them was new in town.
• 16:53
  Speaker: She just moved here from Louisville, was, you know,
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  Speaker: trying to meet new people.
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  Speaker: So I did enjoy, um, going to the
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  Speaker: class, focusing on something
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  Speaker: creative, listening to why
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  Speaker: people were there and realizing
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  Speaker: that this human need that we
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  Speaker: have to connect with people and
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  Speaker: to create is just part of who we
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  Speaker: are.
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  Speaker: And I don't think that AI will
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  Speaker: help us do that unless maybe we
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  Speaker: have it, help us plan a trip,
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  Speaker: but we still then get out and
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  Speaker: take the trip and connect with
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  Speaker: people.
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  Speaker: So, um, I think that when I look
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  Speaker: at all of this together, the
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  Speaker: things that I do from morning
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  Speaker: pages to Just walking, cooking,
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  Speaker: and then, uh, going out, taking
• 17:38
  Speaker: my time out for a solo outing or
• 17:41
  Speaker: solo adventures.
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  Speaker: Um, I just see a rhythm to what I do and a rhythm to what I've
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  Speaker: done over the years where I have time to think on my own, and I'm
• 17:51
  Speaker: time to be intentional and deliberate about what I do, and
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  Speaker: to feel settled and connected and paying attention and
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  Speaker: noticing what's going on.
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  Speaker: All of those things are things
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  Speaker: that I can uniquely bring to the
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  Speaker: table, and so can you in a way
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  Speaker: that I, AI will never be able to
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  Speaker: do.
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  Speaker: Those are the things that make us human.
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  Speaker: And I think it's the things that
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  Speaker: we really need to pay attention
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  Speaker: to.
• 18:19
  Speaker: If we're feeling disconnected and relying more on technology
• 18:23
  Speaker: than we should.
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  Speaker: Um, I encourage you to maybe try some of these things to help you
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  Speaker: move forward and make decisions and be more present to the work
• 18:32
  Speaker: that you want to do, paying attention to going on.
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  Speaker: What's to go.
• 18:35
  Speaker: To what's going on around you.
• 18:37
  Speaker: And approaching things and discerning things about, um.
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  Speaker: You know what truly belongs in
• 18:43
  Speaker: your rhythms and routines and
• 18:45
  Speaker: habits and what can actually be
• 18:47
  Speaker: left out.
• 18:48
  Speaker: Because over time, as we become
• 18:51
  Speaker: more aware of how we're working,
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  Speaker: we can move through the process,
• 18:55
  Speaker: we can make changes, we can
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  Speaker: develop and lean into what
• 18:59
  Speaker: works.
• 18:59
  Speaker: We can use what we're doing for the work that we are writing
• 19:03
  Speaker: about or for the things that we're teaching people.
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  Speaker: And again, this isn't something that you have to follow.
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  Speaker: I just wanted to share what I
• 19:11
  Speaker: found is working for me, um, in
• 19:14
  Speaker: my life and has for many years
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  Speaker: to help me be a person of
• 19:19
  Speaker: intention, truly leaning on the
• 19:21
  Speaker: things that I know make me
• 19:24
  Speaker: distinctly human.
• 19:26
  Speaker: So whether you want to write a cookbook, start a business, join
• 19:29
  Speaker: an online course, make an online course, sell an online course,
• 19:33
  Speaker: do more artwork, do more writing, do more journaling.
• 19:37
  Speaker: Remember, um, how you live and the rhythms that you create in
• 19:42
  Speaker: your own life are what is going to support you in that work.
• 19:47
  Speaker: And it's work that needs to be
• 19:49
  Speaker: something that you can stick
• 19:50
  Speaker: with.
• 19:51
  Speaker: You can stay with.
• 19:53
  Speaker: And it truly does become
• 19:54
  Speaker: foundational in everything that
• 19:57
  Speaker: you do.
• 19:59
  Speaker: So that is it for today's
• 20:00
  Speaker: episode of the Cookbook Love
• 20:02
  Speaker: Podcast.
• 20:03
  Speaker: This is your host, Maggie Green,
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  Speaker: and until next time, I hope you
• 20:06
  Speaker: have a great day and keep loving
• 20:08
  Speaker: your cookbooks.
• 20:13
  Speaker: Thanks for listening to the Cookbook Love Podcast.
• 20:16
  Speaker: You can find out more information at WW dot.