Estelle Oakland

I wasn't fast enough with my camera, but the local pond looked exactly like this.

A week-long holiday from March 23rd to 29th in which to reflect upon one's worst mistakes with the grace of perspective that at least you did not run a container ship aground in the Suez Canal, blocking $10 billion of global trade every day for six days.

Ways to celebrate:

Take as long as you like making a 14-point turn in a crowded parking lot.

Attempt to widen a section of a local river with a single Tonka Truck.

Stage a reenactment, paint a rendering, or otherwise create an artistic homage to the iconic scene. (Please share here if you do!)

Imagine the worst mistake you could possibly make right now and assess its relative visibility from the International Space Station.

Calculate the actual financial cost of every mistake you have ever made, add it to the cost of every mistake you will ever make, and meditate upon the fact that the sum does not approach $60 billion.

Take up space. 🙌