Saturday, November 14, 2026
When it rains, what can I do? So many options! When it’s cold, what can I do? So many options! When it’s hot, I take off my clothes and bask in the sun. There, I’ve done something “about it.” In all these “unchangeable” situations, my options are easy and plentiful.
What about those situations and emotions that won’t budge?
Hold on Sherlock, we’ve got options aplenty.
I remember one occasion of being out on my bike, and the forecast looked great. Then, unexpected rain. I said, “pluck it,” and I just rode in the rain. It was nice. I wasn’t being plucked. I took a “pluck it” attitude. Nobody and no thing is plucking me when I adjust and adapt.
A slight shift is all it takes to realize the power of adjustment.
In Florida, what do we do about all this hot sun? Nothing. We have so many options from sunscreen to the great indoors to moving to Wisconsin! I love the options. I’m adjustable. Nobody’s plucking me. I keep my options open, not my a$$.
So many of us try to wave away emotion or to keep the sun from shining and death from happening. A pluckable person is made out of futile efforts. (Futile means “leaky).
Keep your options open (and your mind), and you’ll never be pluckable again; butt clever.
Think of all the ways you can adjust so as not to appear as though you’re being coerced, forced, or needing to escape an assailant. So many options, the best of which are adaptation, adjustment, and surrender. Usually the “last resort.”
Are you really out of options? Then, I suppose you’re plucked because not even death is optional.
I simply don’t believe you can pin yourself down that easily and be strong-armed by your own hands and mind.
I mean, can you really pluck yourself? Only in a manner of speaking.