So many inner-voices show up to tackle the mundane and the life-changing; and they don’t always agree.
If you’re a Rapid Rabbiter, we’re coming up to another first-of-the-month: October 1.
The day on which to practice the good-luck-rabbit-ritual of saying Rapid Rabbit before anything else.
Or Rabbit Rabbit.
Or Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit.
It depends on who you ask.
My advice? Just pick one and stick with it.
And have fun.
Happy October everyone.
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Bubba and I have a handy two-word conversational pearl that lubricates our conversations; it affably suggests agreement while is simultaneously totally non-committal. Even though we both know the truth behind our use of it, like flattery, it works.
Me: “I think the air quality is going to be good today.”
Bubba: “Could be.”
Could be.
No argument. So agreeable. Yet so much wiggle room for the possibility that Bubba doesn’t agree.
Bubba: “I think the couch would look better on the other side of the room.”
Me: “Could be.”
How lovely that you have that opinion. It’s possible the couch would look better there. But for now, while I mull it over, let’s just leave it be.
It’s an excellent response to an opinion or to anything that can’t be immediately proven.
It obviously doesn’t fit all situations, but when it does, it’s perfect. Used at the right moment, it has proven its brilliance at preserving our loving relationship, preventing conversations from hitting sandpaper, and usually making us laugh.
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Sometimes, not sure of a person’s name, I’ll ask them to pronounce it for me. I struggled for a while trying to remember if a neighbor’s name was Kristan or Kirstan.
Bubba declared his use of this approach.
“I went up to an acquaintance at a party and asked,”
‘do you pronounce your name Laura?…
…or Erica?’
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