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# Repetition Is Where Things Get Interesting
- URL: https://www.jamesreeves.co/november-17-2022/
- Published: 2022-11-17T22:38:54.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-15T03:48:46.000Z
- Description: A shift in the light on the running trail. An unexpected connection on page 172.
- Author: James A. Reeves
- Tags: Notebook

Ohio. An uninspired grey November day. Cold weather without snow feels like an insult, a lost opportunity. Dragged myself through a five-mile run and ninety minutes of novel editing. The most important thing I’ve learned over the years is to show up, especially when I don’t feel like it. Repetition is key. Repetition is where things get interesting. A shift in the light on the running trail. An unexpected connection on page 172\. This journal is part of that repetition too.

There’s liberation in giving myself over to routine. I used to burn up so much energy worrying about when, where, what, and for how long. Add this quote from André Breton’s *[Surrealist Manifesto](https://www2.hawaii.edu/~freeman/courses/phil330/MANIFESTO%20OF%20SURREALISM.pdf?ref=jamesreeves.co)* to the mix, and the daily grind becomes downright exciting: “Let yourself be carried along, events will not tolerate your interference. You are nameless. The ease of everything is priceless.”

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