Mojo, The Bard, & Me

 

Today’s Totally Random Lines

For him, I think not on him; for his thoughts,

Would they were blanks, rather than fill’d with me!

Olivia

Twelfth Night                Act III Scene i, Line 106

Regarding him (Duke Orsino), I don’t think about him at all; regarding his thoughts, it would be better off if his thoughts were about nothing than to be about me.

There. That’s Pete’s version. Pretty simple. It wasn’t that simple when I first read it. But it turns out that it is pretty simple. Sometimes things can seem more difficult at first, but then they come into focus and you realize they’re pretty straightforward. 

I think there’s two things to talk about here, and they’re very related. One is simplicity, and the other is thoughts. So let’s open this up

What Olivia’s saying is simple to understand, and the idea she’s conveying is simple too. Tell the duke to stop thinking about me. Simple as that. But is it so simple to stop thinking about things? Not always. 

And this is true the stressful world of April, 2025 that we’re living in and through.

I think Taylor Swift said it best: Leading up to the election she said that she was voting for Kamala and one of the main reasons was that we needed calm leadership, not chaos and crisis. Well, we got chaos and crisis, and I think we’re all feeling the effects of that now. I know I am. I can do my best to try to pull up, but it’s just not always possible for me. 

It’s as simple and as difficult as that.

 

This little guy here helps me a lot. He helps me pull up (get my thoughts out of the day-to-day stress), and he helps me keep it simple.