Fresh Eyes and Infinite Games
Coffee at Salesforce Tower, fog rolling through Lands End, and the art of seeing what’s already perfect, oh and GUMBO 👍🍲
writing this sipping coffee sixty floors above the city, watching San Francisco unfold beneath you like a living map.
The Salesforce Tower is a meditation on perspective, a reminder that sometimes we need to rise above our usual vantage point to see the beauty that was always there.
You Already Know What You Need to Know
From this height, the city doesn’t look chaotic. It looks purposeful. The fog is a gentle blanket tucking the hills into rest.
The traffic is human stories flowing toward their destinations. When you change your altitude, you change your attitude.
This morning, with steam rising from my cup and the world spread out below, I’m reminded that most of our problems exist at ground level.
Up here, clarity comes naturally. Not because the problems disappear, but because you remember they’re part of something larger, something that makes sense when you step back far enough to see the whole picture.
The Beautiful Gift of Letting Go
Lands End, where the Pacific meets the city’s edge in a dance they’ve been practicing for millennia.
Hiking those coastal trails that strips away everything unnecessary. The fog rolls in like a gentle eraser, softening the harsh edges of yesterday’s worries.
Each step on the trail is a small surrender. Instead of conquering the path—you’re joining it.
The cypress trees don’t fight the wind; they learn to bend with it.
The rocks don’t resist the waves; they let themselves be slowly, beautifully transformed.
There’s wisdom in this willing participation with forces larger than ourselves.
Walking these trails with intention changes everything. Instead of hiking to get somewhere, you’re hiking to be somewhere.
Better than checking off a box is checking in with yourself.
The fog becomes a teacher, showing you how to move through the world with grace—present when needed, gentle in its touch, and always temporary.
This Moment Is Your Home
Later on we will gather around the table. Not because we have to, but because we choose to.
There’s something sacred about preparing a meal together, about turning simple ingredients into something nourishing.
The vegan gumbo bubbling on the stove isn’t just food—it’s an act of love, a way of saying “I see you, I care for you, I want to nourish you.”
In a world that moves at the speed of notifications, choosing to chop vegetables slowly, to stir the pot mindfully, to let the flavors develop in their own time—this becomes a quiet rebellion.
It’s saying that some things can’t be rushed, that the best experiences emerge when we give them space to unfold naturally.
More gumbo here 🍲🍲🍲🍲
Centeredness Through Creative Surrender
Being intentional isn’t about forcing life into perfect shapes. It’s about bringing awareness to what’s already happening.
When I’m present while making the gumbo, every ingredient becomes a choice, every stir becomes a prayer.
The flour & fat releases its thickening magic not because I demand it, but because I create the conditions for it to do what it naturally does.
This is the art of creative surrender—participating fully while holding outcomes lightly.
The gumbo will be what it becomes. The fog will roll in or it won’t. The family conversation will flow where it flows.
My job isn’t to control these things but to show up fully for whatever unfolds.
True Wealth Is How You Flow
From the Salesforce Tower to Lands End, from the hiking trail to the kitchen table, there’s a thread connecting all these moments: the practice of seeing with fresh eyes.
When you look at the same city from a different height, you see new patterns. When you walk the same trail with intention, you notice different details.
When you prepare the same meal with presence, you taste new flavors.
This is what James Carse meant by the infinite game—playing not to win but to keep playing, not to finish but to continue, not to prove but to explore.
The coffee doesn’t need to be perfect, the hike doesn’t need to be conquered, the gumbo doesn’t need to impress anyone.
They just need to be experienced fully, with the kind of attention that transforms ordinary moments into small miracles.
A Beautiful Week Ahead, No Matter What
The fog will roll in and out. The city will hum with its endless energy.
Families will gather and scatter and gather again.
The gumbo will be eaten and the pot will be cleaned and tomorrow there will be other meals, other moments, other opportunities to see the world with fresh eyes.
You don’t need to go anywhere special to find wonder.
You just need to bring your full attention to wherever you are.
The Salesforce Tower offers perspective, but so does your kitchen window.
Lands End offers vastness, but so does the space between your thoughts.
The family table offers connection, but so does this moment, right now, as you read these words.
The infinite game isn’t happening somewhere else, to someone else, at some other time.
It’s happening here, now, in the steam rising from your coffee, in the fog rolling through your neighborhood, in the simple act of choosing to see what’s already perfect about this imperfect, beautiful, ordinary extraordinary day.
The most radical thing you can do is pay attention.
The most revolutionary act is to see what’s already here.
The most transformative practice is to play the infinite game with whatever life puts on your plate—even if it’s just vegan gumbo and a view of the fog.
Deep inhale; you already won 🥇
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