Shifting Gears 🚗💨

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Damon Brown
November 19, 2025

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Hi reader,

I’ve been down for the count most of this week

From a stomach flu courtesy of my children

(You’d think I’d be used to this since my eldest was in Pre-K, but no!).

I’m lucky that my back-to-back speaking engagements were last week

And I was already shifting gears for the upcoming holiday season

Meetings becoming a little more sparse

More quiet planing in the early, 5 pm sunsets

Cocooning in the dark

Healing from sickness is just speeding what was already in motion 🦋

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That’s one of my simple pleasures about life:

If you put your ear to the ground, you can hear the patterns

The symmetry and the beauty

The rhythms in the chaos.

We struggle when we try to impose our will

Jumpstarting or resisting a season that is incongruent

Like trying to plant carrots in the middle of a snowstorm.

I wonder

What season would you being drawn to

If you stopped fighting to make it happen

And let the call of the wild go beneath your armor 🏰

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