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Do You Have a Book In You?
Greenlight that something you’d do naked cartwheels for
“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” ― Toni Morrison
When a brand new recruitment class would come through my college sorority, we would vote as a house on each individual. It was a long and arduous process when you started at 1,500 PNMs (potentional new members). In that meeting that often went late into the night, the collective Kappas would gasp when someone would stand up, green paddle in hand, and say — out of the mass of “nice, cute, and funny” girls we were trying to distinguish between — “She is my naked cartwheels pick.”
In other words, the paddle-holder would do anything — even naked cartwheels — to get this girl into the house. Naked cartwheel picks were nearly always accepted.
Everyone’s got something, and something’s got a hold of everyone.
Chances are you have something you’d do naked cartwheels about too. What would you do anything to share? To lift up? To make happen? What lights you up so much that if given the mic, it would be hard to rip you away?
Maybe it is a girl, or maybe it’s stock trading, or ice luging, or K-pop, or why you refuse to wear sunscreen. Maybe it’s something that you feel so…
