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Cultivating Place's avatar

We share Steve Earle! Any google of Isa Catto would reveal first and foremost that you love your family fiercely and beautifully; and curiosity wins out: which apple? I love your light and humor and humanity, Isa.

Susan Walker's avatar

All of this. Exactly.

Barb Ross's avatar

What a lovely list-feel honored that you shared it! Oh that we could each share these deeper, genuine and quirky parts of ourselves. Your words and insights are always a gift!!! Thank you!

Deb Antonini's avatar

I loved your list of the things about yourself that will always bypass AI. It inspired me to create my own list of the traits, quirks, and values that make me who I am but would never show up in a search result. Thank you for inspiring that bit of self-reflection.

Isa Catto's avatar

Thank you, Deb. I started adding to mine, and it's kind of fun.

Felicity Huffman's avatar

Beautiful, deep, hopeful, delightful. Thank you

Isa Catto's avatar

Well, I thank you as always !

Lynn Goldsmith's avatar

As always, a sincere, honest and insightful share - one that many can hear their own inner voice in. Thanks Isa

Dawn Shepard's avatar

Your list has inspired me to write my own. Thank you!

Isa Catto's avatar

I actually should be thanking those two gentlemen for the inspiration !

Jeannie Carter's avatar

And, man, it is a siren call… especially leading me away from how I really feel…

Thanks,as always, Isa for your conscious missives. I’ve already caught myself like 5 times today (maybe more!) going in to the addiction of sourcing the answers for my questions on the great white web. Hmmm.

Isa Catto's avatar

It's inevitable, but I am trying to moderate this as well.

Joanne Toft's avatar

I love your list - so well said. I was just with a couple new friends in a small town. A couple night of just chatting and not a phone in sight. It was lovely!

Isa Catto's avatar

Those are the connections that make us thrive, right?

Louisa Winthrop's avatar

Absolutely beautiful Isa. I’m reminding Jay to put his phone away at dinner lol.

We SO loved our visit with you guys.

I’d like to come back as a giraffe 😘

Isa Catto's avatar

Thank you, my dear Louisa. We miss you and hope Montana was lovely. The giraffe, that's a good one, although they really do have to splay their legs to drink water.

Lauri Nelson's avatar

and you get to make a new list, whenever you want.

Isa Catto's avatar

That's an excellent point. Thanks.

Jean Chen Ho's avatar

Oh Isa. I too want to be an apple tree in the next life!

Isa Catto's avatar

I think that would be rather grand, and that way, Fiona, if she so desires, can plant me in her garden. How you be? We will be in California more, with any luck, and would love to see you in L.A.

Jean Chen Ho's avatar

I would love that reunion so much 🥰

Vivian's avatar

If you ask questions, you learn something new… too many people keep their cell phones with them at all times 😡 remember what happened to Aspen schools when they banned cell phones, kids actually talked to one another… you’re so insightful! Xo

Joan Zimmermann's avatar

Oh Steve Earle! A sublime human being :).

Isa Catto's avatar

We saw him at the Troubadour with our late daughter, and he played "Goodbye" in honor of his late son. A treasured memory that

Cultivating Place's avatar

oh!

Pamela Joseph's avatar

I love your list also. Very inspirational. Love that you talk to the youngest person in the room. So much to learn from them. We think of you often.😻

Isa Catto's avatar

Thanks, Pam, and here's to a sighting soon!

Josephine Courant's avatar

Does your Substack come up when you google who is Isa Catto? I feel it intrusive if I try. I also loved your list. I would like to come back as a fig tree. What a fun exercise for all of us to write a list like this.