Measure your own magic

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So Friend, any rainbow sightings since we chatted on that? Any raincircles? Or at least rainbow . . . moments?

Are you watching for them? 🔭 

Did you stop? Did you shoulder bump your friend, ‘Wow, check out that rainbow!’  

I had one. My boy turned 18. We celebrated. And I spent too much on dinner. But I didn’t care. Because when I raised my glass for cheers, I said:  

‘Hurry look! Look at this incredible rainbow . . . before it’s gone’ 🥂 

In college I was a hoddy (though not necessarily a hottie 💪) A hod tender is a brick mason assistant. Mix the mortar mud, stack the bricks, run the wheelbarrow. Important grunt stuff 😜 

Between you and me, I didn’t last very long. Didn’t bank much coin, but I loaded up on big Inspo.  

I stacked bricks and piled fresh mud.

During which, I realized that rainbows and bricks were the same thing. Who knew?

The difference was other people see the bricks, and the rainbows are personal projections.

My job was to resupply the mason, so I watched their craft. They laid down mud, placed one brick, tap it left, tap right, nudge here.

They measured the angle with a leveler. Every brick. Every time a quick stare and nod, ‘Yeah that’s a helluva brick’ 🧱 

Tap tap, nudge nudge, then one more. They just stayed in that single brick moment. Every so often, a brick was fractured, crooked, leaning, or I’d cut one wrong, so they reset and got it right.

The mud hardened, and like a rainbow that moment faded and was gone. Hmm yeah » a rainbow brick!

Stay with me, I know I’m getting a little long today. Stay with me. Someone cut that guy off 🍾!! 🤣 

Any way . . . it was a small operation. Just 4 masons and 2 hoddies.

During the builds, each mason would level and measure their own bricks. 

Could you imagine if they hopped off, and scooted across the scaffolding to measure the other mason’s brick. Started tapping and nudging the other brick. It’d be anarchy.

Bro don’t touch my brick!! 🙅 

Inefficient walls that never result in anything special. It’d be chaos. That’s silly.

Friend, sometimes I’m silly. I’m that mason. Is it possible?

Allured by shiny distractions I scoot off the scaffold. I leave my wall.

Yours is high. I want a high wall. I wish my bricks were different color. Better quality. Latest model bricks. I get my level out and measure your brick angles. Rub my cheek against them wistfully. If only . . . if only . . .

Sometimes you aren’t even there. You’re off on vacation🍀and I wish I didn’t have to work on my bricks anymore. Your bricks look easier. Is it possible?

😮‍💨 What might happen if I stay at my wall?

If I do the tap tap, nudge nudge thing? For me? What if I just dominate this one brick today. Today.

Before it’s gone.

What if instead of sizing up your bricks and calculating my inadequacy, I focus on my section over here, could I build something?

What if, now, not later, I am already enough. Is it possible?

See your fleeting rainbow brick. Tap tap. Nudge nudge. Measure and level *YOUR* brick, not his—not hers. Your-one-brick.

That’s a helluva brick. Eventually it makes a helluva wall.

Anyway.

Good luck today placing your rainbow brick. It’s your brick. Place it well. Make it good, because the world needs who you were meant to be 💯 

Mind 🌞 

The equatorial circumference of earth is 24,901 miles.

The Great Wall of China is 13,171, over half the distance around earth.

Viewable from low orbit (not space).

I know right! That’s tens of billions of bricks. That were placed, one at a time.

Soul ⚡️ 

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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