Squeeeee!!! Super duper excited by this surprise Delia ordered especially for me from Sweetwater:
I was not expecting that, though somehow I now realize I’ve been putting GIMBAL into conversation a lot, or I guess just randomly muttering gimbal gimbal gimbal while I’m driving. Not intentionally, but Delia is amazing at giving gifts, especially to me. From the very first gift she gave me through this one tonight almost twenty-one years later, she hears what the priority is out of all my mess and chatter and invests in meaningful gifts that show me she hears and knows me more than I hear or know myself in many ways. She is able to separate the wheat from the chaff, and I produce a lot of chaff so that is pretty extraordinary.
It’s nice that this particular gift is also a tax write-off for work (and accessible to us in spite of being broke because of having a Sweetwater credit card), but it doesn’t just feel like a work gift to me. It’s not like a chore, like a vacuum cleaner or something like that. It’s one of those gifts at the intersection between work I’m most energized about that is also healthy and part of things we love to do together (like wandering around walking, playing music, etc.) and artful.
It’s the kind of gift she knows she can put in my hands to motorize me like a wind-up toy to get into a rhythm of enjoying things I am good at, that drive me and channel some of my more annoying propensities (like shooting videos of her when she’s just trying to enjoy a peaceful walk).
Anyhoo … I’m super fucking stoked about this new tool/toy! Even though it’s the fifth of January, she said Merry Christmas, honey! and that is just right, too.