Dear reader,
I test drove electric vehicles for the first time this week.
I was an early enthusiast but a late adopter of them. I have avoided driving EVs because I love my rugged Subaru. But times have taught me to lean into the times. There’s no other time in history in which people drove and needed to drive electric vehicles at this scale. So I’m making a choice to lean into anything good I can do for our planet. Making a choice to lean into technology that matters.
My uncle who let me drive his Tesla Model Y said something fascinating that I think applies to a multitude of contexts. In gas-powered vehicles, there are 1000+ moving parts, so there is a higher chance of something going wrong or something misfiring. In an EV, there are 30ish moving parts, so there is less of a chance for things to go wrong.
If you look at it from a probability standpoint, it is about mitigating risk. But if you look at it from a life-lesson standpoint, it is more about doing more with less. Cleaning the slate. Clearing the cache (as dear Adriene Mishler says!). Being in a vehicle and being THE vehicle that allows you to experience freedom of space and mind to reach the higher self — the one who creates. We need simplicity. We crave it, especially as we get further away from it and can’t find our way back to it.
The electric vehicle drives shocked me. The silence, the weightlessness, the ability to really step on it and ACCELERATE, the way to brake without slamming the brakes (regenerative braking), the wheel being smooth under my hands. It felt like I could actually think about the next level, not just about getting from point A to point B. What a freedom — don’t even get me started on Full Self-Driving (Supervised)!! Going faster with less effort, less baggage. Slowing down to speed up.
And simplicity doesn't mean absence of detail. For example, Adidas bringing ruffles to their Sambas’ stripes is a stroke of genius. Feminine-sporty is Summer 2026. World Cup North America is in the air!!
Some nature moments that go beyond words this week:
Joni Mitchell once said: "Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if l cannot create I don't feel alive." And I think we’re all really obsessively looking for what is real. If you stay true to what is real for you, what sends currents through you, the power you and only you can supply, I think you’ll have lived the life that is yours.
What sparked more joy this week: Maisie Peters’ new album Florescence and Hiroshima-style Okonomiyaki. What sparked joy for you??
With much love & to going beyond the surface,
Anjali
Next week: do tell, what should we get into?